TNAG-0655-FCO40-804-Development-of-medical-and-health-services-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 78

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on 28 February 1977

HKD.

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

Aday

Noon, Friday

25 February 1977.

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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 Yong's 10-year medical development plan.

Mr. Even heard

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) three specialist clinics/polyclinics were completed;

fifteen additional dental chairs were provided;

(c)

(a)

(e)

a midwifery training school was opened; and

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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