ment; the 279 bedded new Tung Wah Group Sandy Bay Infirmary of which 200 beds are for the use of convalescent patients from Queen Mary Hospital; the addition of 44 beds to the Pok Oi Hospital near Yuen Long in the New Territories; the new Nurses Quarters of the Nothersole Hospital, while the nursing home of 120 beds for cancer patients run by the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society was about to be completed at the end of the period under review.
PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
170. Major projects on which construction had commenced or was about to commence were the 2-storey addition to the Lion's Club Government Maternal and Child Health Centre at Kowloon City, the new standard clinic at Castle Peak and the alterations to existing Queen Mary Hospital, while site formations for the new Lai Chi Kok General and Mental Hospitals and the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital were in progress. Government assisted projects under construction are the Tung Wah Group Wong Tai Sin Infirmary's Phases I and III, extensions to the Maryknoll Hospital, the Buddhist Association Hospital, the Sandy Bay Children Convalescent Home and the Nethersole Hospital.
171. A detailed statement of development will be found in the Statistical Appendix to this report.
VII. TRAINING PROGRAMME
DOCTORS
(See tables 72-74)
172. 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. Posts in the major hospitals are recognized for post-graduate training by the majority of the examining bodies in Britain.
173. Mention has been made in recent reports of the relative short- age of qualified medical personnel and with the completion of the new University pre-clinical buildings at Sasson Road, the University's intake of Medical students was increased and 120 students entered its Faculty of Medicine in 1965. The extensions to Queen Mary Hospital, to which reference has already been made, will be completed in time to allow a larger number of students to have their clinical training. While there
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will therefore be a considerable increase in the output of medical graduates from the Hong Kong University as from 1971, the Colony will remain relatively short of qualified medical personnel for some years to come.
174. Following the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the programme for the training of doctors for post-graduate qualifications was reviewed by the Panel on Post-Graduate Medical Education, which advised a re-appraisal of specialization in the major disciplines. A short- age of experienced personnel has been encountered in some specialities, but it is expected that most of these deficiencies will be remedied within the next few years.
DENTAL STAFF
175. No undergraduate training in dentistry is available in Hong Kong, but Government annually awards scholarships for the study of dentistry overseas. Three such scholarships were awarded during the year, while eleven scholars returned to the Colony after qualification, bringing the total of returned graduates to 46.
176. In-service training in dental technology is available for student dental technicians, while evening classes are held at the Hong Kong Technical College for technicians in private employment. In-service training of selected dental surgery assistants in the fields of dental radiog- raphy and orthodontics was also carried out.
177. Three dental surgery assistants are under training in Penang, Malaysia, under World Health Organization Fellowships for training in dental nursing.
General Nursing
NURSES
178. There is full reciprocity of registration between the general nursing qualifications of the Nursing Board in Hong Kong and of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales. Government maintains two training schools, at Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals respectively, and teaching is in the medium of the English language. while the other approved training schools are maintained by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital and teaching is in the medium of the Chinese language. Temporary recognition was given to
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