satisfactory standard of medical facilities. Developments have to take into account the ability of the community to afford these facilities either by direct payment or by indirect payment by means of taxation. The Working Party which prepared the White Paper was re-constituted by His Excellency the Governor as the Medical Development Plan Standing Committee. The Director of Medical and Health Services is its Chairman and the Committee comprises two nominated members and representatives of the Medical And Health Department, the Finance and Social Services Branches of the Colonial Secretariat, and, when necessary, the Public Works Department. The Committee has held 44 meetings since its inception, in order to keep the recommendations made in the White Paper under continuous administrative review and to report its conclusions on all major matters to Government. The Committee's activities fall into five main categories, namely: develop- ment of medical institutions; staffing of such institutions; subventions to Government-assisted institutions; fees and charges: and improved utilization of existing medical facilities.
183. The principal matters with which the Committee continued 19 occupy themselves were: the 350-bed United Christian Hospital at Kwun Tong; the 100-bed Yan Chai Hospital at Tsuen Wan; the four clinics respectively at Kwai Chung North, Kwai Chung South, Kowloon East and Tsz Wan Shan areas; the alterations to and cxtensions of Queen Mary Hospital; and the subventions paid to Government- assisted institutions.
184. Amongst new matters considered by the Committee were: re-design of standard urban clinics; re-development of Tang Wah Hospital; Nam Long Hospital extension; salaries and allowances of medical staff in Government-assisted hospitals; improvement of the central departmental laundry at Queen Elizabeth Hospital: provision of an organ transplant unit at Queen Mary Hospital, provision of an additional classroom for the physiotherapy training school at Queen Elizabeth Hospital; the 180-bed Hong Kong Buddhist Hospital in Kowloon; and the proposed working party on the medical subvention policy.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
185. The year 1969-70 saw the completion of a number of major additions to the Colony's medical and health services. Although most of these have been mentioned elsewhere in this report, it is appropriate to summarize them in this chapter.
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186. Government projects completed during the year were the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital at Queen's Road East, Hong Kong Island and a one-chair dental clinic at Tong Fuk in South Lantan. Also completed, at a Government-assisted medical institution, was an extension to Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Drug Addicts.
PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
187. Major projects on which construction had commenced were the new Lai Chi Kok Hospital, a new convalescent block at Kowloon Hospital, the re-development of medical institutions at Sai Ying Pua. the Siu Lam Hospital for the Mentally Subnormal, and the Buddhist Hospital at Lo Fu Ngam in north-east Kowloon.
188. A detailed statement of development will be found in the Statistical Appendix to this report.
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DOCTORS
189. 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 examining bodies in Britain.
190. Mention has been made in recent reports of the shortage of qualified medical personnel. In February 1969 a Committee was appointed by Government to review the doctor problem in the Hong Kong Government. The Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Charles HARTWELL, KL, C.M.G., submitted its report in the same year. In the report reference was made to the need for increasing the intake of medical students to the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong. Since 1965 the University's intake of medical students has been 120 a year and the University plans to increase this to 150 with effect from October 1970. Further extension plans to increase the facilities for clinical teaching al Queen Mary Hospital are already in hand, in order to allow for the larger number of students expected to start their clinical training in October 1972.
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