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There are at present 19,966 beds in 42 Government, Government-assisted and private hospitals. With the completion of the Princess Margaret Hospital Psychiatric Wing, the new wing of the Kwong Wah Hospital and the extension to the Wong Tai Sin Infirmary, some 2,000 additional beds will become available during 1980.
40.
Plans are in hond to provide a total of 32,897 beds by 1989. Amon the major projects in the pipeline are the Shatin Hospital, the Tuen Mun Hospital and the East Kowloon Hospital. The Shatin Hospital will serve both as a regional hospital for the Eastern New Territories as well as the teaching hospital for the Medical School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
41.
To provide primary health care, there are at present 52 clinics, polyclinics and health centres with a total of 241 clinic consulting rooms. It is expected that 5 new clinics will be opened in the next 18 months, and a further 21 clinics are being planned so that the total number of clinic consulting rooms (including 4 psychiatric day centres) by 1989 will be 411.
1964
1973
1979
1989
Total No. of beds:
(i) Excluding beds in
penal institutions custodial wards, and drug addiction treat- ment centres.
(ii) Including beds in
penal institutions etc.
12,271 16,508 19,966 (3.5)* (3.9) (4.1
32,897
(5.7)
12.448
33,537
16,848 20,606 (3.6) (4.0) (4.2) (5.8)
* The figure in brackets indicates the bed ratio per thousand population.
Total No. of clinic
consulting rooms
(including 4
psychiatric day centres)
42.
(figure
206
241
411
not
available)
Preventive health services are also being developed, mainly by the expansion of the maternal and child health services, family planning services, intensive case finding of tuberculosis and improvements in immunization programmes. A Central Health Education Unit has been set up to co-ordinate programmes against certain common diseases, particularly the gastro-intestinal group and also degenerative diseases. In the areas of specialised services considerable resources are being channelled into such areas as identification, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of the disabled. There are also services for the elderly, mentally-ill and mentally- handicapped. The Industrial Health Unit is being expanded to provide a full ccup tional health service. To relieve the pressure on hospital beds, a community nursing service
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