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for the treatment of cardio-vascular diseases, and the 300-bed extension to the Wong Tai Sin infirmary which provides welcome relief. for the chronically ill who cannot be discharged from institutional gaze?
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Over the next 18 months, the total number of hospital bods will be increased by 2,110, or 10 percent overall, of which 1,840 will be in the New Territoriea. The Prince of
Wales Hospital at Sha Tin with its 1,448 beds will be the major
and regional hospital for the Eastern New Territories
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teaching hospital for the Chinese University's medical school. It will be commissioned in phases and we are all delighted that TRE the Duke and Duchese of Kent will be present to mark its formal completion at the end of this month.. An additional 662 wiki boda, including 392. in the New Territories, will bo provided through the subvented and private sectore, all with grant or #% load assistance · from the Government, in thẻ now
the now MacLehose Rohabilitation Centre and extension projects at Yan Chai, Pok Oi and Baptist Hospitals.
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Looking further ahoad wa should have some 29,200
hospital beds by 1987. Again, the bulk of the now facilities
will be in the New Torritories or the new development area of
East Kowloon. . In addition,
In addition, in order to relieve further the pressure on acûte hospital beds, a development programme for the provision of infiriaxy bode for long term patients has been endorsed by the.. Medical. Development Advisory Committee. It is tran proposed that. some 1.400 guzthor infirmary beds should be
provided by the end of the decade.
(iv) Outpatient care
As” regards, out-patient, sørvicep, five new clinics will be completed in: the next 18 months. A further 18 clinics of polyclinics axe. being. planned for the next five years, to provide a total. of $39. clinic consulting rooms by 1987, compared with 287 at present.
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