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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on12 July 1977

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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Noon, Wednesday 13 July 1977.

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Mr Roger Sims (Bromley, Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what are the plans for the establishment of a medical school in Hong Kong and for new hospitals.

Mr Evan

Luard.

The Hong Kong Government proposes to establish a second medical school as part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, linked to a new 1,400 bed teaching hospital to be built at Shatin. It is planned that the school should receive its first intake of 60 students in 1981 building up to an annual intake of 100 in 1983. In addition to the new hospital at Shatin there are plans for a 1,300 bed psychiatric hospital in West Kowloon to be completed in 1979; a 1,200 bed hospital at Tuen Mun to be completed in 1986 and a 500 bed psychiatric hospital on Hong Kong Island to be completed in late 1980s.

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