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Over the next 18 months, the total number of hospital bods will be increased by 2,110, or 10 percent overall, of The Prince of which 1,840 will be in the New Territories. *Wales Hospital at Sha Tin with its 1,448 beds will be the major regional hospital for, the Eastern New Territories and the teaching hospital for the Chinese University's medical school. It will be commissioned in phases and we are all delighted that TRH the Duke and Duchese of Kent will be present to mark its formal completion at the end of this month.. An additional 662 wal beds, including 392. in the Now Territories, will be provided through the subvented and privato geotoze, all with grant of Aww loan assistance from the Government, in the new MacLehose Rohabilitation Centre and extension projects at Yan Chai, Pok Oi and Baptist Hospitals.
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29,200 hospital beds by 1987. Again, the bulk of the new facilities will be in the New Territories or the new development area of East Kowloon. In addition, in order to relieve further the 19. .' pressure on acute hospital beds, a development programme for the provision of infirhazy bods for long term patients has been endorsed by the.. Meddgal. Development, Advisory Committee. test. proposed that. “some 1,400 further infirmary beds should be
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