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Chapter 12
Staffing the Health
Services
G.F. 323
THE HEALTH SERVICES
12.1
As indicated in Chapter 1 the success of Hong Kong
in eradicating and controlling major public health hazards owes
a great deal to the priority afforded the establishment of effective
health services in the early years after the Second World War.
The full range of measures now undertaken to safeguard and
promote public health in Hong Kong are administered by the Medical
and Health Department, the Urban Council and the Urban Services
Department as well as by the Labour Department and the New
Territories Administration.
12.2
The past two decades have seen major strides in the
control of communicable diseases, which were once responsible
for the great numbers of deaths in Hong Kong. This pattern has
changed; the risk of death is now greater from the diseases of
later life and from accidents. Nevertheless Hong Kong must
continue to be fully prepared to deal with communicable diseases.
and to impos necessary environmental hygiene measures. The
emphasis of these services must now increasingly encompass the
new specialty of community medicine which is concerned not only
with the control of communicable diseases particularly within
the realm of environmental hygiene but also with other aspects
of medical and health services such as health .education and
rehabilitation for the community as a whole.
12.3
The MDAC recommended that action should be taken first
to follow through the report of a Working Party of the Medical and
Health Department which was reviewing the establishment and distribution
of the health and nursing grades in the department's health services.
The Working Party was of the opinion that there were
shortages in some parts of the services and recommended that
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