In the later part of the year activities were centred around an anti-cancer campaign organised jointly with the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Association and the Stoma Association of Hong Kong. The response wha encouraging and over 65,000 attended the 3-day exhibition in City Hell and a further 15,000 people attended the Twuen Wan and Yuen Long Exhibition.
The Central Health Education Unit has further expanded and developed its resource and supply service. Demand for the servios haa increased tremendously with the sider circulation of the resource catalogue. This offers an opportunity for voluntary organisations, schools, interesting departments and unite within the Medical & Health Department to borrow and utilise films, slides, tapes or obtain printed material for theiz own health education activities.
Dental Service
The Government Dental Service provides dental care for all monthly-paid Government servants and their dependanta as well as simple dental treatment for the inmate of penal institutions and specialiet treatment for patients in Government hospitals. Emergency treatment is also provided for the public in a number of clinice. A school dental care service based at MacLehose Dental Centre was introduced in September to provide regular dental health care to school chilären who join the scheme and at the same time promote dental hygiene amongst the school population. The centre incorporates a training school for dental therapists and hygienists and a school dental clinic. Six more school dental clinics are being planned on a regional basis.
In 1980, there were 344,025 attendances, and 78,771 persons
were given dental checks and treatment.
Training in dentistry is now available in Hong Kong in the Prince Philip Dental Hospital which took in its first batch of 60 studenta in September 1980 and it is expected that they will graduate by the year 1985 to serve the local community,
Port Health
The port health authority enforces health controls at the Hong Kong International Airport and in the territory's water, to prevent the introduction of quarantinable disease and to carry out other health measures required under the International Health Regulations, The health staff regularly check the food and water supply of air-food-catering service inside the Airport to ensure that they are clean and safe for consumption.
The service provides facilities for vaccination and the issuing of international vaccination certificates. It also inspects and superviaes the eradication of rats on board the vessels.
On the disbandment of the Fumigation Bureau on 1.8.1980, five commercial firms were approved to provide fumigation service to ships. In addition, the staff of the Port Health Office also carried out disinfection of junks and shipe which carried Vietnamese refugees at Western Quarantine Anchorage.
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The medical staff on duty provides medical assistance to ships in the harbour, transnd ta medical advice to ships at sea, operates a 24 hour health clearance service for all incoming vessels and grants radio pratique to ships from "clean" ports,
Despite the atrain placed on the service since 1979 by the inflow of boat refugees from Vietnam, Hong Kong remained free of all major quarantinable diseases.
Up to date Epidemiological informatim is exchanged regularly with the World Health Organisation in Geneva and ita Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila and with neighbouring countries,
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In 1980, 3,696 ships arriving in Hong Kong were cleared. number of vaccipations given at port health incoulation centres totalled 27,615.
School Medical Service
The School Medical Service is operated by the School Medical Board which is an independent body. Participation is voluntary and for a token fee of $5 a year, a participant can receive free medical attention from any one of the practitimer of their choice. On 31st March 1981 a total of 207,508 pupils from 801 schools participate in the medical scheme. The government contributes $50 a year for each pupil enrolled in the scheme and also beare the administrative cost of running the scheme,
Hospital and Clinic Services
The provision of hospital and clinic services is organised on
a regional basis. Regionalisation ensures that the needs of each region is better assessed and that performance is better monitored. The occupancy rate for beds in regional hospitals has been constantly high. Attendances at casualty departments have also increased. All these reflect the growing demand for services as a result of the rapidly increasing population,
District hospitals provide basic hospital services in support of regional hospitals. Utilization of these hospitals has been improved with an average bed occupancy rate of 80.2%.
As at 31.12.1980, there were a total of 20,806 bede in 44 hospitals (excluding those maintained by the armed forces), 18 pris on hospitals/treatment centres, 21 government clinics/maternity homes and 8 private nursing and maternity homes.
Hospital services are supported by specialist clinics which provide out-patient specialist services and general clinics which pro- vide out-patient general health services. Specialist clinic servicea are available in every region except East NT which will be served by the Prince of Wales Hospital and Polyclinic when it is completed in 1982. 53 general clinics are located all over the territory.
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