And once the foreign missionaries began to grow old and return home, yet with most local Taiwanese doctors unwilling to go to out-of-the-way Hualien, patients also gradually began to turn away from the hospital, with its aging facilities and obviously stretched personnel.
而隨著外籍宣教士們紛紛告老還鄉，本土醫師又多不願意到偏遠的花蓮來，門諾醫院設備老舊、人力上顯得吃緊，病人逐漸流失。