With shrinking funds, falling patient numbers and reduced human resources, and with founding superintendent Roland Brown about to retire and return to the USA, if the Mennonite Hospital was to survive, its managers had no choice but to pay great attention to cost and efficiency, and this caused disappointment to many people.
在經援減少、病人減少、人力減少的情況下，加上院長薄柔纜一度退休返美，院方為了維持醫院的生存，只好極力講求成本、效益，讓許多人對門諾感到失望。