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PRAISE FOR NEW POLYCLINIC
Saturday, October 28, 1972
Dr. P. Jeffrey Chapman, Senior Medical Officer, Medical Research
Council in Britain, said the facilities and equipment at the new South Kwai
Chung Jockey Club Polyclinic were "superb."
He made this comment recently before returning to Britain at the
end of a three-week private visit to Hong Kong, during which he conferred
with senior officers of the Medical and Health Department.
The South Kwai Chung Jockey Club Polyclinic was opened by Her
Royal Highness Princess Alexandra at a formal ceremony earlier this week,
It is a new establishment designed to serve the needs of the growing
population of the Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung townships.
Britain's Medical Research Council has been engaged for some years
in a study with Hong Kong's Medical and Health Department, the Anti-Tuberculosis
and Thoracic Diseases Association and the Haven of Hope Sanatorium on ways and
means of reducing the length of treatment of tuberculosis.
Dr. Chapman said his visit was not in connection with this progranne,
but from what he had seen of it, he thought "things were going extremely well."
He had "nothing but praise" for the expanding medical and health
services in Hong Kong, and he was particularly struck by the youth and enthusiasm
of many medical officers in positions of authority he had met while here.
"They reflect, I suppose, the general youth of the population, since
they are a product of it," he commented,
"It is quite impressive what a great
deal of responsibility many of these officers have at what I would consider a
relatively young age."
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