(Vd. X. R. 233).
Eligibility and
admission
to midwives
training
schools.
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(c) the establishment is associated with ante-natal and post-natal
clinics;
(d) if the establishment is not part of a gencral hospital, facilities
for isolating infectious cases are provided:
(e) the establishment is, or after being approved by the Board will
be, at all times staffed by-
(0) not less than one medical practitioner with special experience in obstetric work satisfactory to the Board, and
(ii) not less than one resident medical practitioner possessing a minimum of six months' post-graduate experience in obstetric work:
Provided that this requirement shall not apply in any cast in which the medical practitioner referred to in (1) is resident in the establishment; and
( not less than three resident midwives each of whom, if acting as a teacher of the pupils, shall be a registered midwife of more than three years standing whose name appears on the register of the Hong Kong Nursing Board.
(3) Without prejudice to anything contained in paragraph (2). before approving any establishment to be a training school the Board shall take into consideration the number and qualifications of the members of the permanent medical and nursing staff, the equipment available for teaching purposes, the facilities for study available to the pupils, and any other matters relating thereto.
(4) If at any time it appears to the Board that any training school has ceased to comply with any of the requirements specified in paragraph (2), the Board may, after such inquiry as the Board may think fit, withdraw its approval.
(5) Every approval and every withdrawal of approval under this regulation shall be declared by the Board by notification in the Gazette. (6) Every training school shall be subject to such inspection as the Board may from time to time direct.
(7) Every establishment approved in accordance with the provi- sions of the Midwives Regulations revoked by these regulations to be a training school for midwives shall be deemed to have been duly approved under this regulation to be a training school.
8. (1) No woman shall be admitted to any training school unless her name is registered with the Board as a pupil midwife.
(3) No woman shall be eligible for registration under para- graph (3) unless either her name appears on the register of the Hong Kong Nursing Board or she satisfies the Board-
(a) that she has attained the age of nineteen years;
(b) that she has attained the following minimum standard of
education-
(1) for English Speaking Training Schools-that she has completed Form IV and is eligible for entry to Form V, or (i) for Non-English Speaking Training Schools-that she has completed Senior Middle 1 and is eligible for entry to Senior Middle II:
(ii) that she is a woman of good character; and
(iv) that she is not suffering from any infectious disease within the meaning of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance which would, in the opinion of the Board, (Cap. 141). render her unfit to attend women in childbirth.
(3) Application for registration ander this regulation shall be made to the Board in writing accompanied by documentary evidence of the particulars specified in paragraph (2) and submitted through the authority administering the training school at which the applicant intends to undertake her training.
9. (1) Every course of training for pupil midwives intending Training of to apply for registration under the Ordinance shall be carried out under midwives. the supervision of one or more competent teachers of midwifery and--
(a) shall extend over a period—
(D) in the case of any woman whose name appears on the register of the Hong Kong Nursing Board, of one year, and
(ii) in other cases, of two years; and
(6) shall include-
(D) not less than thirty lectures and demonstrations in mid- wifery, including ante-natal care and care of the new-born infant;
(i) the conduct of ante-natal examination of not less than fifty pregnant women;
(ii) attendance at not less than thirty cases of labour, making full examination during the course of labour and personally delivering the infant and afterbirth in each case, and the personal care of not less than twenty laying-in women and their infants during the time the patients are in the training school;
(iv) attendance at infant welfare clinics and practical in- struction in the care and management of infants;
(v) in the case of pupil midwives taking two years" training, a preliminary course in elementary anatomy, physiology, and the elementary principles of general nursing and bygiene.
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