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to contain 750 acute general beds, 250

psychiatric beds, 100 geriatric beds and

100 maternity beds;

Tuen Mun Hospital: this will be a district

hospital of 1,200 beds to serve West New

Territories, designed and planned to

support the regional facility at Princess

Margaret Hospital. It will be planned to

contain 500 acute and 250 non-acute general

beds and 450 psychiatric beds (of which 200

will be for the mentally retarded);

Shau Kei Wan Psychiatric Hospital: this will

contain 500 beds rather than the 1,000 originally

proposed by MDAC. 1,000 beds in a single hospital

would produce too large a unit for the facility

proposed. (450 of the remaining beds will be

provided at the proposed Tuen Mun Hospital and

50 in day beds in selected clinics); and

(e)

East Kowloon Hospital: this will be a

district level hospital of 1,200 beds

to act as a supporting facility for the acute

beds in the Queen Elizabeth and the United

Christian Hospitals. It will be planned to

contain 800 general non-acute beds, 300

psychiatric beds and 100 geriatric beds.

The completion of these new hospital projects (at Sha Tin, Tuen Mun, Shau Kei Wan and East Kowloon would produce an additional 4,100 beds to which the private and Government-assisted sectors may be expected

to add further.

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The provision of day beds on an experimental basis will also be pursued as a means of reducing this shortfall to some extent.

Day beds would be provided in clinics at which day

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