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(e) to ensure that new hospitals are not unduly

large (although in Hong Kong's circumstances

(f)

large hospitals have to be accepted as it is

essential to make the fullest use of the land

available); and

to work towards the achievement of a satisfactory

distribution (in the context of the regional

approach) between acute and non-acute beds.

Within the broad strategy of current policy, general

priority is to be afforded to those projects which will contribute

to the satisfactory development of the new towns, and through

them to the remainder of the New Territories. The top priority

for general hospital provision is therefore accorded to two new

major hospitals to serve the new towns of Sha Tin and Tuen Mun.

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The full programme of Government hospital building

proposed is then -

(a) the completion of Princess Margaret Hospital and

its psychiatric wing

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projects already in the

Public Works Programme;

(b) Shatin Hospital: this will be a regional

hospital of 1,200 beds to serve East New

Territories.

In addition, it should be

developed as a teaching hospital to provide

the clinical teaching facilities needed for

the second medical school which is to be

established at the Chinese University of

Hong Kong; the hospital will be planned.

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