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institute will open next year and will provide a further
2,700 places. These institutes have been built under the
auspices of Hong Kong's Vocational Training Council, which
has wide responsibilities for developing and operating
technical and industrial training for operatives,
craftsmen and technicians.
The Council operates two
industrial training centre complexes which provide
training in the major industrial skills for some 9,000
the
trainees each year. On the commercial side, i opened Comil?
two new training centres during the year in the fields of
insurance and electronic data processing.
(b) Medical Services
In the field of medical and health services work
continued on Hong Kong's extensive hospital building
programme.
The number of beds
in
government
and
government-subvented hospitals has risen from 17,000 to
22,000 over the last ten years and is projected to rise to
over 27,000 by the end of 1990.
A report by overseas consultants on the
management and organisation of hospital services was
published in March. One of its principal recommendations
is that the management
of all government and
subvented