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to provide additional intensive in-patient, day-patient, and out-patient programmes in rehabilitation centres;
to provide additional special sessions at specialist services such as ear, nose and throat clinics and eye clinics for disabled children referred by development screening and school screening programmes; and
to improve the training of medical and para- medical staff in rehabilitation.
115. For the hearing impaired and the deaf, specialist services are provided by the Medical and Health Department in 9 clinics with a total of 75 hospital beds. For the partially sighted and the blind, 29 consulting rooms are provided. For the psychiatrically impaired, 15 consulting rooms and 180 psychiatric day-hospital places are provided. In addition 2,454 psychiatric hospital places are provided. 116. For the mentally handicapped there are 500 hospital beds as well as three in-patient and four out-patient rehabilitation centres. Voluntary agencies provide 102 hostel accommodation places for ex-mentally ill patients who although not needing the intensive care of a hospital, are not ready to lead an independent life immediately after leaving hospital. A community nursing service for psychiatric patients is also being operated on an experimental basis. When the psychiatric wing of Princess Margaret Hospital is completed in 1980, the number of psychiatric beds will increase to 3,700. The number of hospital beds for the severely mentally handicapped will increase to 700 in 1984 on the completion of the Tuen Mun Hospital. In addition, four additional in-patient rehabilitation centres will be established by 1983/84.
117.
For the physically disabled, a range of services is provided. There are 380 hospital beds and out-patient facilities in 6 regional hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres. There are 150 physiotherapists, 34 occupational therapists and 20 prosthetists providing para-medical services to the patients.
Social Rehabilitation Services
118.
To integrate the disabled fully into the community, a variety of social rehabilitation services are provided by Government and the voluntary sector. These include counselling, housing, residential care, transport, access, sports and recreation.