TABLE 28
GOVERNMENT-ASSISTED HOSPITALS
General Maternity Tuberculosis Leprosy Total
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Hospital
Tung Wah
238
34
Tung Wah Easiero
239
32
49
373
330
Kwong Wah
214
130
60
404
Pok Oi
50
10
60
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole
194
TO
12
276
Ruttonjee Sanatorium
230
230
Freni Memorial Convalescent
Home
106
106
540
5401
12
540
580
120
120
Grantham
Hay Ling Chau Leprosarium
Haven of Hope Sanatorium
一8一個
54
Sandy Bay Convalescent Home
Total..
1,017
276
1,230
540
3,063
Queen Mary Hospital
312. This is the largest Government Hospital in the Colony and is also the Teaching Hospital for the University of Hong Kong Medical School. Its function is that of an acute hospital which is also the main specialist centre for the Colony. The University clinical units of Surgery, Medicine and Paediatrics and Gynaecology provide the medical staff and clinical care for 251 beds. There are also major clinical units in medicine, surgery and radiology under Government Specialists. A limited number of beds is available for orthopaedic surgery, chest surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, radiotherapy, midwifery and otorhino- laryngology. Physiotherapy and occupational therapy units are also established in the main building. The administration of the hospital is the responsibility of a Medical Superintendent of Senior Medical Officer rank and nursing care is provided entirely by the Government Nursing Service. The Queen Mary Hospital is the main Government centre for the training of nurses.
313. During the year a minor adjustment in the arrangement of wards increased the bed capacity to 599. The number of in-patients treated rose from 12,866 to 13,725, an increase of 859, mainly accounted for by admissions to general wards. The completion of the alterations to the operating theatres has greatly improved the surgical amenities and 8,055 operations were performed in the theatre unit, an increase of 703 over 1956.
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314. There is no out-patient department at the Hospital and admissions are made through the Government out-patient clinics on Hong Kong Island. The Casualty Department, recently modernized is, however, the only casualty centre for the whole of the Island, and traumatic and other emergency cases are admitted direct to the wards from Casualty. A fracture clinic, under the supervision of the University Consultant in orthopaedics, has continued an extremely valuable special service which has reduced considerably admissions to the limited number of beds available.
315. The neurosurgical unit formed in 1956 has continued to set a high standard in the treatment of acute head injuries. As a result there has been a significant decrease in the number of deaths from this cause. 316. Specialist clinics were maintained for peptic ulcer, thyroid and cardio-respiratory cases. The latter is supported by the Lewis Laboratory and the Cardio-Respiratory Committee which is com- posed of physicians, surgeons, radiologists and anaesthetists, met regularly throughout the year. Specialist out-patient clinics are held twice weekly by the Government Specialist staff of the Hospital at the Violet Peel Polyclinic in Wan Chai.
317. In the surgical wards special attention has been given to clinical research on the surgical treatment of duodenal ulcer, on cholangiohe- patitis and on the surgery of tuberculosis of the spine dealt with by the anterior approach.
318. The role of the Queen Mary Hospital as an acute hospital continues and this is particularly so in the paediatric wards to which only emergencies can be admitted at the present time. Despite a maximum tum over of patients in the acute wards, the utilization of convalescent beds in the Lai Chi Kok Hospital and the saving in beds by the extended use of special out-patient clinics, little progress can be made towards the reduction of waiting lists until much more accom- modation is available. This is under urgent consideration with a view to building a new thirteen storey wing in the near future. Kowloon Hospital
319. This is the only large acute hospital serving Kowloon and the New Territories and the increase of 66 beds from 247 to a total of 313 has had no appreciable impact on the situation. Pending the completion of the New Kowloon Hospital of 1,350 beds in 1962, the best possible is being done by the use of the Lai Chi Kok Hospital as an overflow
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