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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1989
"THESE INCLUDE MORE OBSERVATION
BEDS AND
OF SCREENING
THROUGH ADMISSIONS
THE ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, AND RE-ALLOCATION OF BEDS WITHIN AND AMONG HOSPITALS.
BEEN
"
MEASURES HAD IN FACT DR CHAU POINTED OUT THAT MOST OF THESE
HAD BEEN
THE LIMIT IMPLEMENTED, BUT THESE
PUSHED TO
OF UNLESS THERE EFFICIENCY AND COULD ONLY PRODUCE MARGINAL IMPROVEMENTS WAS A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE STRUCTURE.
TOGETHER
EVEN DISTRIBUTION
OF
"THIS IS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOSPITAL
AND SUBVENTED HOSPITALS AUTHORITY WHICH BRINGS GOVERNMENT
INTEGRATED UNDER AN
SYSTEM AND ENSURES AN RESOURCES, HE SAID.
"
DR CHAU SAID THAT ANOTHER AREA OF IMPROVEMENT WAS THE OF MORE HOSPITALS AND THE PROVISION OF MORE HOSPITAL BEDS.
WHICH
BUILDING
"TO THIS END, THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL BEDS то BE MADE
BE WILL
DISTRIBUTED AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS
AMONG PAMELA YOUDE VARIOUS HOSPITALS, INCLUDING THE TUEN MUN HOSPITAL, THE
CHESHIRE HOME AND THE HOSPITAL, THE SHA TIN INFIRMARY, THE SHA TIN QUEEN MARY, QUEEN ELIZABETH AND YAN CHAI HOSPITAL EXTENSIONS.
OF "THERE SHOULD BE CONSIDERABLE ALLEVIATION
PROJECTS ARE THE EXISTING HOSPITALS AFTER ALL THESE SAID.
OVERCROWDING IN
COMPLETED,
Tr
HE
DR CARE,
APPROACH
PREVENTION,
CHAU SAID SECONDARY TREATMENT AND
CONCERNING THE DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH THAT HONG KONG SUBSCRIBED TO THE MODERN TREND IN A PRIMARY, AND TERTIARY
DIRECTED TOWARDS REHABILITATION RESPECTIVELY.
AND
HOUSES
IN
THERE WAS AN APPROPRIATE RANGE OF SERVICES FROM INSTITUTIONAL
AND DAY HOSPITALS TO ACCOMMODATION CARE, OUT-PATIENT CLINICS DOMICILIARY SERVICES SUCH AS LONG-TERM CARE HOMES AND HALF-WAY AND VARIOUS SUPPORT SERVICES TO MAINTAIN AND REHABILITATE PATIENTS THE COMMUNITY.
AND
"AT PRESENT, HONG KONG HAS 4,100 BEDS FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
BE INCREASED 475 DAY PLACES, AND IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS, THESE WILL TO 5,000 BEDS AND 630 PLACES.
"AS FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE, WE
WILL BE INCREASED TO 11 THE PRESENT TIME SEVEN CENTRES, AND THESE IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS, HE SAID.
HAVE AT
OUT THAT THE "PROGRAMME
THE
DR CHAU POINTED ON SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY,
THE FORM OF A GOVERNMENT HAD A TERRITORIAL STRATEGY IN PLAN FOR THE SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY"
PROMOTE AND TO WELL-BEING OF OLD PEOPLE THROUGH CARE IN THE COMMUNITY.
"WE HAVE A FULL RANGE OF IN-PATIENT AND OUT-PATIENT FACILITIES, DAY HOSPITALS AND INFIRMARY PLACES.
OUR
UNITS "THERE ARE GERIATRIC
INTEGRATED WITH THOSE OF OTHER NEW GENERAL HOSPITALS WHILE DISCIPLINES IN ALL
COMMUNITY NURSING ΤΟ BENEFIT SERVICES ARE ALSO PROVIDED
HAVE ELDERLY WHO
BEEN INTO THEIR FAMILIES DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITALS FOR EARLY INTEGRATION AND SOCIETY, DR CHAU ADDED.
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