the patient is given 20 mg of methadone diluted in a mixture of orange juice. The intake is once a day, with the dosage increasing by 10 mg a day until a maximum of 40 mg is reached on the fifth day. When the final dosage is found to be adequate to relieve the patient's craving for 36 hours, he is discharged, and then encouraged to return to the Centre every day for his daily dose of methadone taken in the orange cordial. The procedure also requires the regular testing of urine for the detec- tion of morphine, heroin, or opium.
148. In the first five months of the programme, 228 patients were treated. Difficulties resulting from their addiction, such as medical. social and psychological problems, were dealt with. The Centre received valuable help from the Association of Volunteers for Service.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS
149. There are two hospitals which admit patients suffering from infectious diseases the Sai Ying Pun Hospital on Hong Kong Island, and the Lai Chi Kok Hospital in Kowloon. The latter also provides some accommodation for convalescent cases from the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth hospitals. The two infectious diseases hospitals will soon be replaced by the 110-bed Infectious Diseases Block of the Princess Margaret Hospital, to be opened in late 1974.
150. While the overall trend was towards a reduction in incidence of infectious diseases, food and water-borne diseases, namely typhoid and the dysenteries, and to some extent viral hepatitis, still accounted for a significant number of cases of notifiable diseases. (See Table 14.)
THE TANG SHIU KIN HOSPITAL
151. The Tang Shiu Kin, built with a substantial donation from Sir Shiu-kin TANG, is situated at Morrison Hill, Hong Kong. Opened in 1969, it replaced the former Eastern Public Dispenary and Maternity Home, the Harcourt Health Centre, and the Wan Chai Social Hygiene Female Clinic.
152. The hospital is equipped with a casualty department and casualty wards for 40 patients. It has a general out-patient depart- ment, a maternal and child health centre, a 36-bed maternity ward, a social hygiene clinic, a special skin clinic, and a part-time obstetrical and gynaecological clinic.
153. The hospital also bouses the head office of the Maternal and Child Health Services and a training school for health visitors and
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bealth auxiliaries. Quarters are available for medical and nursing staff. Since its opening, the hospital has played a useful role in providing casualty and emergency services for the eastern part of the Island,
OTILER GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS
154. Other hospitals maintained by the Government are the St. John Hospital, serving the Island of Cheung Chau and neighbouring islands of the western sca-board; the South Lantau Hospital, serving villages on the south-west coast of Lantau Island; and six hospitals within compounds at Stanley Prison. Victoria Prison, the Tai Lam Centre for Women, the Tai Lam Addiction Treatment Centre, the Ma Po Ping Addiction Treatment Centre and the Chi Ma Wan Prison.
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
155. Pressure remained heavy throughout the year on all 49 general out-patient clinics and also on most specialist clinics. Trends during the past 10 years are shown in Fgiore 12.
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TOTAL OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCES IN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS 1963-72
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