Medical
Appendix B
1972/73 78/79
79/80 80/81 81/82 82/83 83/84 84/85
85/86
(a)
Provision of general
and specialised
16,395 20,098
20,667 22,171 23,061 24,371 25,951 27,751
29,249
hospital beds
(b)
Provision of outpatient clinics
49
52
55
56
58
61
63
64
66
Provision of consulting
rooms
206
249
277
302
321
338
361
375
394
NB
(c)
Some existing clinics are being reprovisioned to provide more consulting rooms. There is also an increase in doctor sessions because of the growing provision of evening clinics.
These figures cover proposals endorsed by the Medical Development Advisory Committee but not yet all finally approval in the public works programme.
The above figures include the following for psychiatric and mentally retarded patients:
(1) Consulting rooms
at psychiatric clinics
10
14
14
14
21
21
28
28
31
(2) Psychiatric beds
1,331 2,441 2,441 3,745
3,745 3,745
3.805
4,055
4,555
(3) Psychiatric day
hospital beds
100
180
200
200
250
250
300
350
400
(4) Hospital beds for the
severely mentally
200
503
503
503
503
503
503
703
703
retarded