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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987
THE
IN ADDITION, A DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WILL BE CREATED WITHIN
AND PREVENTIVE GOVERNMENT TO POČUS ON THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICAL CARE.
"THIS MEANS A COMPLETELY NEW ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE HOSPITALS. IT WILL PROVIDE A CLEARER LINE OF RESPONSIBILITY; FLEXIBILITY TO MERT SPECIAL NEEDS, AND MORE PUBLIC DECISION MAKING AND EVALUATION,
FOR OUR ENHANCED
IN
PARTICIPATION
HE SAID.
WILL BE FORMED IN APRIL " A PROVISIONAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
AND ADMINISTRATIVE STEPS NECESSARY 1988 TO OVERSEE THE LEGISLATIVE FOR ITS FORMAL ESTABLISHMENT."
!
SIR DAVID
THAT POINTED OUT
THE GOVERNMENT
HAD TAKEN ITS REPORT ON THE TO
DECISION AFTER CAREFULLY CONSIDERING THE CONSULTANTS' DELIVERY OF MEDICAL SERVICES IN HOSPITALS, AND THE PUBLIC REACTION IT.
"THIS IMPORTANT NEW INITIATIVE
FIRM DETERMINATION SERVICES, HE SAID.
"
AND
COMMITMENT
DEMONSTRATES THE GOVERNMENT '9 TO IMPROVE
AND HEALTH MEDICAL
MEDICAL SERVICES
"WE INTEND TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SUBSIDISED
AN ORGANISATIONAL TO ONE AND
WE NEED TO HAVE ALL. TO DO THIS STRUCTURE WHICH WILL BE MORE EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE AND RESPONSIVE."
WAYS AN EARLY TASK FOR THE NEW AUTHORITY WOULD BE TO LOOK INTO
SERVICE COULD BR CONDITIONS OF IN WHICH A SET OF COMMON TERMS AND
AUTHORITY, SAID ESTABLISHED FOR ALL. STAFF WORKING UNDER THE HOSPITAL
ON THESE MONTHS, FURTHER CONSULTATIONS SIR DAVID. IN THE NEXT FEW
ORGANISTAIONS MATTERS WOULD BE HELD WITH STAFF AND WITH THE SUBVENTED AFFECTED.
STRIDES HAD BEEN MADE IN SIR DAVID ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GREAT
AND THE DEVELOPING HEALTH
SOCIAL PROGRAMMES, SERVICES AND GOVERNMENT'S POLICY HAD ALWAYS BEEN TO USE THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE PROMOTE MOST EFFECTIVELY THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
TO
AND
GREAT EMPHASIS HAD BEEN PLACED ON PREVENTIVE MEDICAL CARE, MUCH HAD BEEN ACHIEVED IN THE PROVISION OF CURATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT.
MORE HOSPITALS WERE BEING BUILT,
AND THE PAMELA HOSPITAL IN TUEN MUN DISTRICT, WHICH WOULD HAVE 2,000 BEDS.
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FOR EXAMPLE THE
YOUDE
1,600 HOSPITAL IN
BRD
EASTERN
HE
OF
NEVERTHELESS, SAID SIR DAVID, MUCH REMAINED TO BE DONE, AND
SOME HOSPITALS AUFFER FROM OVERCROWDING. HAD SEEN FOR HIMSELF HOW
NUMBER AND THE THIS PROBLEM, PLANS WERE IN HAND TO DEAL WITH HOSPITAL BEDS WOULD INCREASE BY 50 PER CENT IN THE COMING DECADE.
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