Hospital beds position by
1982 if no
further
Government
hospital
building
takes place
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1,000 population.
· 22
The Government accepts this as a desirable
standard for long term planning purposes.
7.4
The present position in relation to the provision
of hospital beds is set out in paragraphs 2.2 to 2.6. If no new
projects were completed by the end of 1982 the position would be
Provision by mid-1975
(including temporary and
substandard beds and assuming
19,185
G.F. 323
the Princess Margaret and
United Christian Hospitals
are in full commission)
Projects in the Public Works Programme:
Psychiatric Wing of the Princess Margaret Hospital at Lai Chi Kok
Urban clinics (maternity beds)
Private and Government-assisted hospital extensions (as listed in para. 22 of the MDAC Report except the expected Matilda extension (56 beds) now understood to be unlikely to be undertaken in this period)
1,304
48
1,352
1,000
TOTAL
21,537
Less closures of some temporary and substandard beds
1,422
20,115
This would produce a ratio of 4.05 beds per 1,000 population by
1982 (by comparison with the standard set for 1972 of 4.25 beds
per 1,000 population).
7.5
The possibility of retaining in service as many as
possible of the beds proposed for closure will clearly need to be
kept under review in these circumstances but it would be unacceptable
to plan on the assumption that substandard or temporary beds should
be retained. In the absence of further proposals in the private
or Government-assisted sector it is clear that the Government should
put action in hand now towards meeting the shortfall.
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