(d) Projects on which initial planning has continued or commenced:
(0) Combined Vaccine Institute.
(10) New Lai Chi Kok Hospital.
(ii) Mental Defectives Home.
(iv) Castle Peak Clinic and Maternity Home.
(v) Chai Wan Maternity and Child Health Centre.
(vi) Morrison Hill Health Centre.
(vü) Lions Club Government Materal and Child Health Centre, Extensions,
(e) Projects listed in the 1964-65 Estimates for which initial planning has
not yet commenced:
(i) Redevelopment of Sai Ying Pun Site.
(i) Shau Kei Wan Hospital.
(1) Hong Kong Mental Health Centre.
(iv) St. John's Hospital, Cheung Chau: Outpatient Clinic and Major Altera-
tions.
(v) Tax Wan Shan Clinic and Maternity Home.
(vi) Wong Tai Sin Clinic.
(vii) Kowloon Dental Clinic.
VI. HOSPITAL COSTING
425. For the past few years figures have been maintained, using exactly the same basis of expenditure for comparison, of the costing of representative hospital units. Figures for the years 1962-63 and 1963-64 are shown in Table 54. The total costs for each unit and for each bed per annum have been slowly rising, but, owing to the rapidly-increasing numbers of patients treated and the consequent rapid turnover, the average cost of treating each patient has generally declined.
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HOSPITAL COSTING 1962-63 AND 1963-64
freamed
1962-63
1963-64
Total Cost
Queen Mary Hospital
"(Acute geboral and teachingt.
Cast per
JPAU
$13,753,733 $18,814.99
Kowloon Hospital
(Acute gederal)
$11.263,708 $17,064.72
Cost per
partm Treated
$ 645
5 374
Total Cera
Cost per bead pew Frar
511,699,398 121,989.40
511,303,960 $19,519.09
Cust per
panien
$ 619
$ 373
Lai Chi Kok Hospital
{Infectious & convalescen() $ 2,303,730 X 4,789.45
$ 283
To Yuk Hospital
(Maternity and reacting)
$2,171,967 510,859.8.J
$253
$ 2,306,969 $ 4,796.18
5 2,327,260 $11,636.30
* 320
$_17)
Castle Peak Hospital
5 6,156,883 $ 5,502,13
$2,635
$ 6,230,200 $ 5,567.65
$1.734
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[Mental)
VII. TRAINING PROGRAMME
DOCTORS
426. The University of Hong Kong confers the degrees of M.B., B.S. which have been registrable with the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom since 1911. After provisional registration with the Medical Council of Hong Kong, the graduates are required to undergo a twelve months period of compulsory internship in posts approved by the University. The number of students admitted to the Faculty of Medicine was increased to one hundred during the year and it is expected that by 1967 the number of graduates will have risen from between 35 to 50 to some 80 each year.
427. A number of clinical posts in the major hospitals are recognized for post-graduate training by the majority of the examining bodies in Britain.
428. The post-graduate training of doctors in the Government Service for higher qualifications necessary for appointment to specialist clinical posts in general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology, is under the supervision of the Panel on Post-Graduate Medical Education, which consists of the University Clinical Professors, the Government Clinical Specialists and members of the Medical Headquarters staff. The Panel meets twice-yearly to review the progress of the doctors under training and to make recom- mendations regarding the awards of study leave overseas.
429. The programme for training of doctors for post-graduate qual- ifications necessary to staff the clinical units in the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital proved its value on the opening of that institution. The supply of well-qualified and experienced clinicians was completely adequate in most fields and most of the new units required were formed without difficulty. However, there is a shortage in certain of the less general specialities, but it is expected that this will be remedied within the next two to three years.
DENTAL STAFF
430. No undergraduate training in dentistry has yet been established in Hong Kong, but Government during previous years had awarded annually scholarships for the study of dentistry overseas. This scholarship scheme was suspended temporarily in 1963, but during the year two scholarship
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