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A regional organisation

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Chapter 4

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SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSALS

4.1

The following chapters sei at the Government's proposals

towards meeting the objectives described in Chapter 3; these will

be carried forward as fast as possible, consistently with the resources

the

available, and in the light of Government's capacity to build, staff

and finance them. The main proposals are

(a) medical and health services will be organised on a

regional basis;

(b) planning will be based on the need for each region

to be served by all appropriate general and specialist

facilities;

(c) Government and some Government-assisted hospitals will

be brought together in an integrated (regionally based)

structure with uniform charges for 3rd class beds;

(a) the accident and emergency services will be reorganised

within the new regional structure;

New hospitals and clinics

(e)

the ratio of 5.5 hospital beds per 1,000 population

should be regarded as a desirable standard for long

term planning purposes;

(f)

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towards this, new general hospitals will be built at

Sha Tin and Tuen Mun and then in East Kowloon; new

major psychiatric facilities will be provided in the

psychiatric wing of the Princess Margaret Hospital at

Lai Chi Kok and later a hospital at Shau Kei Wan;

(g) "day" beds will be introduced initially on an experimental

basis in selected clinics;

(h) polyclinics and clinics will be provided in accordance

with revised design standards and to keep pace with the

growth of population in particular areas;

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