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Wednesday, November 7, 1973
He described how the proposed regionalisation of the hospital and
*clinic services would work.
In the eastern district of Hong Kong Island, for example, patients
from the Shau Kei Wan general clinic would be referred to the nearest
specialist clinic, the Violet Peel, and after that either to the district
hospital -- in this case the Tung Wah Eastern, in Sookunpoo or the regional
hospital, the Queen Mary. The hospital would depend on the nature and
condition of the illness.
It should also be possible for a patient to be transferred from a
district to a regional hospital if specialist treatment was required, or
vice versa from a regional to a district hospital for convalescence following
the end of the acute phase of an illness.
Dr. Choa made it plain that the problem of staff to meet these
developments would be serious, illustrating the point with a number of
significant figures.
"It is hoped that we shall have 100 more doctors a year in addition
to the present output of 150 by 1983," he said. "In the Government sector,
the number of nurses in the establishment by 1983 is estimated at 6,000
general and 1,600 psychiatric nurses."
To train them, a third general nurses training school should be set
up, and a second paychiatric nurses training school was already in the
planning stage.
Dr. Choa referred to the proposals to establish a dental nurses
training school, a school children's dental clinic, and the need for Hong Kong
to train its own dentists.
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