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42.
The year also saw steps tak en to ensure that the younger
generation became more proficient in both the Chinese and English
languages; the expansion of facilities for industrial training, as a
result of new cen tres opening in Kwai Chung and Kowloon
technical
progress
in
Forms
September
Bay; new institutes at Sha Tin and Tuen Mun nearing completion; and
towards completion of a scheme to include computer studies
4 and 5 curricula for all aided secondary schools. from
1986. At present some 210 schools or about two-thirds of
the total include computer studies in
their curricula.
(c)
Medical Services
43.
As
government
major new
Hospital,
Ruttonjee
regards medical services,
hospital
land
formation work for a new
started at Chai Wan, while construction of a
hospital at Tuen Mun, extension of the Queen Mary
expansion of Pok Oi Hospital and
redevelopment of the
Sanatorium all progressed well. In addition, funds were
extension s to several
subvented sector, including $680 million for a
to the United Christian Hospital, which will more
size, and $224 million to allow an increase
to 700 beds,
beds, at the Yan Chai Hospital.
set aside to meet the cost of large-scale
hospitals in the
760-bed extension
than double its
capacity, from 150
(d) Drug Abuse
44.
in
Preventive education among the young was extensively promoted
by the Action Committee Against Narcotics, with imaginative
of the dangers of
in
programmes designed to maintain public awareness
drug abuse and to enlist public co-operation
reporting the
activities of street dealers. A campaign was mounted to encourage
drug abusers to seek treatment; its success was measured by the
large attendances at treatment clinics. The Hong Kong Government is
also considering the introduction of measures to seize the assets
drug traffickers.
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