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Chapter 3

OBJECTIVES

3.1

(a)

The broad objectives of these proposals are

to build new hospitals and dinics to meet

the demands from expected population growth;

(b) to improve standards wherever practicable;

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(c) to increase provision for the specialist treatment

of psychiatric cases and of the elderly;

(a)

to give priority to medical and health services

in the new towns (and through them the New Territories);

(e)

(f)

to make good some gaps in the existing services in the

urban areas, subject to the general priority for the

new towns;

to renovate or replace below-standard clinics wherever

possible;

(g)

to relieve overcrowding in Government hospitals;

(h)

to secure greater use of beds in Government-assisted

hospitals;

(i)

to reorganise the casualty and accident services;

(j)

to maintain, improve and expand the health services;

(k)

to consolidate and expand family planning services; (1) to develop further the medical treatment of drug

(m)

addiction; and

to improve general dental health.

3.2

Effective progress towards these objectives will require

With some exceptions,

new buildings and also more qualified staff.

overseas training opportunities are few and cannot be expected to

be adequate to meet local requirements. It is therefore necessary

to establish new local sources of training in particular for doctors,

dentists and nurses.

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