TNAG-0507-FCO40-572-Development-of-medical-and-health-services-in-Hong-Kong-1974 — Page 147

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11.8

Notwithstanding the priority attached to this

development it will take several years through recruitment and

training to build up the staff needed to operate the scheme

to include all pupils of school

It will not be possible

age right from the start. The Government has thereffare accepted

the MDAC recommendation that initially the scheme should be

available only to children entering primary school in the year in

Thereafter the scheme will be

which the scheme can start.

progressively extended to include children entering primary school

in each subsequent year. Treatment will be subsidised but not

free; an annual charge of $5 will be made in line with that made

in the case of the School Medical Service.

Establishment of a Dental Nurse Training School

11.9

To enable the scheme to proceed a dental nurse training

It is proposed that this be included

school must be established.

in a dental centre to be established at Morrison Hill next to the

Tang Chi Ngong Specialist Clinic. This will also accommodate a school children's dental clinic with 30 chairs, surgeries for the dental officers and the Government dental clinic presently in the Wan Chai Polyclinic.

Dentist requirements

$

G.F. 323

11.10

With the introduction of this service a major step will have been taken towards improving the dental health of the community without significantly increasing the demand for dentists. It is clear however from the MDAC assessment or the present position and from the fact that community consciousness of dental health is increasing, that steps should be taken to improve the supply of dentists, not simply to maintain the Government services but primarily for private practice.

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At the December 1973, the number of dentists

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