Medical and Health Services
23.
A new hospital with 1,200 beds came into full service in 1976 making a total of 19,000 hospital beds against an estimated require- ment of 22,600. The programme of improvement provides for the completion of a new 1,300-bed psychiatric wing at the Princess Margaret Hospital and a further 630 beds will be added in other projects within the next 8 years to meet the present shortfall of psychiatric beds. The complex at Shatin will open in 1982/83 with 1,200 beds, a supporting polyclinic and a general clinic. In 1983/84 the Tuen Mun Hospital will open with 1,200 beds and a supporting polyclinic. A further four clinics, one health centre and a poly- clinic, all to be completed within the next eight years, are planned for other areas of the New Territories and East Kowloon. dental centre is being built to provide facilities for a dental nurses' training school and a dental clinic for school children.
24. Steps are also in hand to increase the supply of doctors. new medical school at the Chinese University will admit its first intake in 1981 and will eventually produce 100 doctors a year to supplement the 150 doctors produced by the existing medical school at the Hong Kong University. The Hong Kong Government has instituted a special examination for doctors trained in China whose medical degrees are not recognised by the Hong Kong Government.
Expenditure on Social Services
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25. Estimated Hong Kong Government expenditure on social services shows a considerable increase for 1977/78.
Figures are:
Revised
1976/77
Draft 1977/78
HK$ (14)
HK$ (M)
Education
1,453
1,658
Housing
659
1,019
Social Welfare
368
433
Medical and Health
662
781
Labour
20
27
3,162
3,918
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