28 February 1977
Mr Ron Lewis (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the achievements and completion of projects in 1976 in Hong Kong's 10-year medical development plan.
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MR EVAN LUARD
The major medical projects completed in 1976 were as follows:
(a) the general wing of the Princess Margaret Hospital
(1,340 beds) and the centenary building of the Tung Wah Hospital (424 beds) (a Government-subvented hospital) were commissioned and the casualty department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was enlarged;
(b)
(c)
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three specialist clinics/polyclinics were completed;
fifteen additional dental chairs were provided;
(d)
a midwifery training school was opened; and
(e)
two full-time and fourteen evening methadone detoxification centres for the treatment of drug addicts were established in various parts of Hong Kong.
As a result of the increase in the number of hospital beds, the ratio of beds per one thousand head of the population increased from 4.22 in 1975 to 4.34 in 1976.
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