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increase from 52 with 249 consulting rooms

now, to 66 with 407 consulting rooms, an

increase of from 5.4 consulting rooms per

100,000 population to 7.8.

c)

An expansion of maternity and child health

family planning, immunisation and health

education programmes.

ત)

The number of psychiatric beds to increase

from 2,400 to 5,000, psychiatric day beds

from 180 to 450, and mentally retarded beds

from 260 to 700.

e)

A new dental school to open in 1980 and a

second medical school in 1981.

f)

A new dental therapist training school being

opened this month, and two new nurses training

schools to be available by 1982.

g)

Extensive new courses for the training of

para-medical personnel have commenced at

the Polytechnic this September.

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