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Monday, January 31, 1977
IK TO HAVE 3,000 MORE HOSPITAL BEDS IN FIVE YEARS
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The Director of Medical and Health Services, Dr. ... hong,
said today that an additional 3,000 hospital beds rould be available
for use within the next five years, boosting the total number of
beds in Hong Kong to 22,000, or 4.5 beds per thousand population.
The development of new hospitals and clinics will take
into account the geographical distribution and movement of population
and the development of new towns, he said.
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Dr. Thong was speaking at a luncheon meeting of the
Association of Past Chairmen of the Previous Boards of Directors of
Tung "ah Group of Hospitals this afternoon.
Cutlining plans for the period up to 1981/82, the Director
said the broad objective of future development of medical and health
services was not only to build more hospitals and clinics to meet
expected population growth but to improve and expand existing
services and introduce new services to meet the changing demands of
the comunity.
On hospital projects, the psychiatric wing of the Princess
Margaret Mospital, providing 1,300 beds, is scheduled for completion
in 1980, and a health centre at East Kowloon will be completer a
year later. Work on the 1,300-bed Sha Tin Hospital, which is to
become the teaching hospital for the new medical school at the
Chinese University, will commence in 1979 and the target date for
completion is 1982/83.
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