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population by the end of 1982 set in the 1974 White Paper
will not be met. The hospital building programme is
being supplemented by the steady construction of general
and specialised clinics of which 8 more will be opened
between '76/77 and '79/80. A dental school is being
planned in the Hong Kong University and will open in the
next quadrennium.
increased first by arrangements for the licensing of
unregistrable doctors under a new scheme which will
start operation this year, and secondly by the opening
of a second medical school in the Chinese University
of which planning is starting this year and which will
open in the next quadrennium.
The supply of doctors will be
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Hong Kong's exceptionally young population
has been growing up over the past ten years and there
are now many more people at the age at which they raise
families. In 1974 the clinics managed by the Family
Planning Association were taken over by Government and
have since been integrated into the Family Health Service
which in 1975 operated from 38 centres each of which
provides a comprehensive free health care programme for
women of child-bearing age and children from birth to
five years.
Total attendance at family planning clinics
(where service is free) was 150,000 in 1975 and the
crude birth rate has declined from 30.7 in 1964 to 18.3
in '75.
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