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The need for higher standards

7.6

It was considered essential by the MDAC to improve the

standard set in 1964 because of

(a)

(b)

(c)

the general change in the age structure of the

population; the pattern of disease in Hong Kong

reflects increasingly the illnesses of middle and

older age (age groups which will increase in mumber

during the period);

the need to introduce separate specialist geriatric

provision for the degenerative diseases particularly

associated with the elderly;

the need to extend provision for in-patient paychiatric

treatment; Castle Peak Hospital can only deal with a

proportion of cases warranting admission and even then

only inadequately;

(a)

a forecast increase in maternity requirements;

(e)

an increase in demand for general beds, as public

expectations grow and medical science advances; and

(f)

the need to improve the service by reducing overcrowding.

7.7

The need to increase the numbers of beds available can

be partly offset by reductions in the need for beds for tuberculosis,

leprosy and other infectious diseases.

The number of beds proposed

in the light of all these factors would enable present standards of

treatment to be maintained, and in some cases improved.

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