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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1988
À TOTAL OF EIGHT PERSONS IN SIX ESTABLISHMENTS WERE FOUND WITHOUT PROPER PROOF OF IDENTITY AND HAVE BEEN REFERRED ΤΟ THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
ANOTHER 27 ESTABLISHMENTS WERE FOUND TO BE KEEPING EITHER NO RECORD OR IMPROPER RECORDS OF EMPLOYEES,
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THE SPOKESMAN REMINDED EMPLOYERS THAT THEY COULD BE FINED TO $50,000 AND JAILED FOR UP TO A YEAR IF THEY WERE FOUND TO BE EMPLOYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,
MORE HOSPITAL BEDS PLANNED FOR NEXT DECADE
ANOTHER 12,660 PUBLIC HOSPITAL BEDS WILL BE PROVIDED END OF 1996 WITH THE COMPLETION OF 37 PROJECTS CURRENTLY MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.
THIS WAS DISCLOSED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (MDAC) CHAIRED BY DR CHIU HIN-KWONG.
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HOSPITAL HOSPITAL
THE 37 PROJECTS INCLUDE TUEN MUN HOSPITAL, QUEEN MARY EXTENSION II, PAMELA YOUDE HOSPITAL, UNITED CHRISTIAN EXTENSION, RUTTONJRE SANATORIUM REDEVELOPMENT, NETHERSOLE (TAI PO) HOSPITAL AND NORTH DISTRICT HOSPITAL.
AT PRESENT, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOSPITAL BEDS IS ABOUT OF WHICH 90 PER CENT ARE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 14 GOVERNMENT SUBVENTED HOSPITALS.
25,000, AND 20
AT A MEETING TODAY, THE COMMITTEE NOTED THAT THE HOSPITAL BED PROVISION RATIO WILL INCREASE STEADILY FROM 4.5 BEDS PER THOUSAND POPULATION IN 1987 TO 6.1 IN 1996.
REQUIREMENT FOR BEDS
COMPARING THE CURRENT PROJECTION OF THE WITH THE PREVIOUS PROJECTION, THE MEETING ALSO NOTED THAT THE ESTIMATED DEMAND HAD BEEN REDUCED BY ABOUT 3,000 BEDS.
THIS IS ATTRIBUTED MAINLY TO A REVISED POPULATION PROJECTION, BASED ON THE 1986 BY-CENSUS, WHICH INDICATES THAT THE INCREASE IN POPULATION OVER THE COMING DECADE WILL BE LESS MARKED THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.
ON HOSPITAL
IN VIEW OF THE PLANNED PROVISION AND REQUIREMENT BEDS, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THERE WILL BE A TERRITORY-WIDE SHORTFALL OF 70 BEDS BY 1996.
THE MDAC