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