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the more rural areas although the emphasis is mainly on health education and self-help. They give advice on problems of environ- mental sanitation, and standard plans of simple and economic sanitary structures. Such services are linked, as far as possible, with fixed or mobile clinics, to encourage co-ordination between preventive and curative services.
As well as the Government medical facilities and the Lutheran Hospital at Fanling, already mentioned, there is the Pok Oi Hospital, a long-established Chinese charitable institution at Yuen Long; an extension was built during the year, and brought the total capacity of this hospital to 124 beds.
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