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91.
Next year the newly built 600-bed cardiothoracic centre at the
Grantham Hospital will provide the most up-to-date and sophisticated
treatment techniques for heart diseases. The 1,400-bed Prince of Wales
Hospital at Shatin will serve as the teaching hospital for our second
Medical School at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as well as the
regional hospital for the eastern New Territories. Construction of a
new regional hospital for the western New Territories at Tuen Mun will
start next year.
92.
Further plans are in hand for new government hospitals in
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East Kowloon, Tai Po and Shau Kei Wan, with capacities ranging from 1,200
to 1,500 beds each. In addition, major extensions include plans for
Pok Oi (200 beds) Yan Chai (500 beds) and United Christian (775 beds).
93.
In order to relieve pressure on acute hospital beds, the
Medical Development Advisory Committee has endorsed a programme for the
provision of infirmaries for patients requiring long term care. Apart
from the 300-bed extension to the Wong Tai Sin Infirmary which is expected
to be completed early next year, three more infirmaries of about 700-900
beds each have been recommended.
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The above programme would increase our stock of hospital beds
from the present 20,800 to 36,300 and achieve the Medical Development Advisory
Committee's target of 5.7 beds per 1,000 population by 1990, compared to
4 beds per 1,000 population now.
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Three major new clinics are expected to be completed before the
end of the year at Lei Muk Shue, Ngau Tau Kok and the Yan Oi Polyclinic,
Stage I at Tuen Mun. Three more, the Li Ka-shing Polyclinic at Shatin and
linics at the Cheung Hong Estate at Tsing Yi and the Shun Lee Tsuen Estate
/in East Kowloun
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