(a) Medical Gerviggs
(i)
General
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medical
Continued prescuro is being put on Our facilities ac a result of inpronood population and
increased rising expectations. That Hong Kong hoo boon ablo to maintbin an impressive health record is
record is a rofloction of
a roflection of the effort and
dedication of all concerned.
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Our record in containing major communicable diccsc00 has been made possible by improved sanitation, immunization programmes, epidemiological surveillance and primary heqlth cate. The tuberculosis notification rate declined further frop 160 por 100,000 population in 1980 to 150 in 1981, and tho death rate from this dicesse Toll from. 10.9 to 9.4 por 100,000 population over the samo pozicd. Our infant mortality rate (8.7 por thousand
thousand live births) and maternal mortality rate (0.08 por thoucand total birtho) for 1981 are among the lquast in the world.
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(11) The changing econo
With the agoing of OUT population. coupled with improvemento in socio-economic conditions, thore has been a change in the pattern of diseacot. The loading causes of donth are now cancer and heart discaços. There is also an increasing trend in the number of psychiatric capoo associated with tho stresa of urban lifa. Another algnificant change is in the whift of population to the Now Torritories with the development of the New Towns.
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(iii) Hospital development
Government's
plans for mooting these changea are exemplified in the completion of tho Kwai Chung Hospital which provides 1,340 beds for the montally ill, tho KHOC Ta Hong Cardio-Thoracic Contre at Grantham Hospital which now provides
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