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Wednesday, October 25, 1972
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OPENS FOLICLINIC AT KHAI CHÚNG
Ideal Combination Of Community Effort
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra today opened the South
Kwai Chung Jockey Club Polyclinic, near the industrial town of Tsuen
Wan in the New Territories,
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"The provision Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Princess said:
of adequate medical services for the fast growing city of Hong Kong seems
to have been achieved in a remarkably competent way by the efforts of
surely voluntary organisations, private individuals and the Government --
the ideal combination for anything involving the well-being of every
member of a community,
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The Director of Medical and Health Services, Dr. G.H. Choa spoke
briefly on the need for such a polyclinic in the growing industrial town,
referring in particular to some of the services that it would be providing.
He thanked the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club for its generous donation
towards construction of the polyclinic.
He then invited Her Royal Highness to unveil a plaque and to declare
the polyclinic open.
The polyclinic is designed to serve the population in the rapidly
developing Tsuen Wan Kwai Chung township. The first stage, now completed,
consists of a three-storey standard urban clinic and maternity home, and
a two-storey chest clinic and chest X-ray centre.
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