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psychiatric hospitals. We were then shown around the Shanghai
Chest Hospital which is apparently the biggest in China but in
fact only has some 450 beds, was built in 1957 and gave the
impression of being poorly maintained and equipped.
employs some 30 staff in its pharmacological department. I
think Shanghai misinterpreted my work. We spoke exclusively
to pharmacists and I doubt if they were well briefed on the
drug problem (if any) in Shanghai. Their main concern seemed
to be the internal ordering and control of hospital drugs.
28.
One minor comment of interest was that it was
common for psychotropic drug abuse to be treated by means of family and workmate counselling and support.
29.
We gave
gave the Shanghai Bureau of Health the same
material as listed in paragraph 9 above together with a video
of "The White Powder War" (English version) and undertook to
send a Chinese version when available. We were invited to
dinner by Dr. Lin Fa-xiong,
Municipal Health Bureau on
Deputy Director of the Shanghai
Thursday, 5 November, having
ourselves invited him and his staff on Wednesday, 4 November :
Iain C. Orr, HM Consul General was not able to attend our
function due to a prior engagement.
However, we paid a
courtesy call on him at the Consulate and briefed him on the
people we had seen both in Shanghai and in Beijing. Orr had