THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS
150. The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals is a long-established Chinese charitable organization and is managed by a Board of Directors elected annually. During recent years a programme of modernization and expansion has been undertaken with assistance from Government in terms of personnel, especially medical officer and consultant services, money and material, with a subvention amounting to 529,161,060.
151. The Intensive Care Unit at Kwong Wab Hospital was opened in March 1968. Up to the end of the year, 592 patients had been treated in the unit. With the provision of intensive nursing care, active trealment and continuous close observation for critical cases, case fatality ratios for many diseases have been markedly reduced.
152 The Casualty Department at Kwong Wah Hospital now bandles all accident cases taking place between Waterloo Road and Lai Chi Kok Road. A police post has been established to deal with medico-legal cases and an industrial nurse from the Labour Depart- ment attends to advise cases of industrial accident.
153. The need for subsidiary beds for long-term patients was stressed in the Medical Development Plan and the Group's programme of development has been directed towards the provision of these. Phases II and III of the Wong Tai Sin Infirmary were completed in March, 1969, and, immediately commissioned and brought into use. They provide an additional 450 beds for long-term patients.
THE ALICE HO MTỰ CING NETHERSOLE HOSPITAL
154. This hospital, supported by the London Missionary Society, received a Government subvention of $2,991,400 during the year. The bospital has been considerably modernized in recent years and its facilities greatly improved. Features now provided in the hospital include a central sterile supply department, a central milk kitchen, an intensive care unit and a new laundry. Several departments including pharmacy, radiology, blood bank and haematology, laboratory, operat ing theatres and casualty and ward units have been re-modelled or rebuilt
POK OI HOSPITAL
155. This charitable hospital at Yuen Long in the New Territories continued to serve the population in Yuen Loog and its surrounding
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areas. The hospital's programme of modest expansion progressed satisfactorily and new projects including minor staff quarters, a kitchen and a mortuary were under construction at the end of the year under
review.
CARITAS MEDICAL CENTRE
156. This hospital of 830 beds, erected with the aid of donations from Roman Catholic Communities in many parts of the world and in particular from the Federal Republic of Germany, and maintained partly with the aid of a Government subvention of $2,568,802 is situated in the densely populated district of So Uk in north-west Kowloon. It is administered by the Canossian Sisters and comprises blocks for general, tuberculosis and cancer patients, as well as quarters for staff and a nurses training school. The hospital continued to play an active part in the provision of medical services in the Colony.
HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS AND THORACIC DISEASES ASSOCIATION
157. This Association, in its three institutions, the Graulham Hospital, the Ruttonjec Sanatorium, and the Freni Memorial Conva- lescent Home, provides the great majority of beds available for the Treatment of tuberculosis and a close liaison is maintained with the Government Chest Service.
The Grantham Hospital (See table 67)
158. This hospital of 619 beds is equipped as a modern chest hospital and is administered by the Grantham Hospital Management Board on a fee-paying, non-profit making basis. Government maintains 586 of the beds but all staff of the hospital is provided by the Associa- tion with the exception of Government Medical Officers posted to the Government Clinical Units which are directly responsible for 220 of the beds.
159. Closed heart surgery became available in 1967 and open heart surgery became possible in 1968. The Cardiac Surgery Unit is operated in conjunction with the Professorial Medical and Surgical Departmeots at the University of Hong Kong.
Ruttonjee Sanatorium and Freni Memorial Convalescent Home
(See table 68)
160. The Ruttonjee Sanatorium and its annex, the Freni Memorial Convalescent Home, together accommodate 360 patients suffering from
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