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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
progress
the total include computer studies in their curricula.
(c)
Medical Services
43.
As regards medical
services, land formation work for a new
government hospital started at Chai Wan, while construction of a
major new hospital at Tuen Mun, extension of the Queen 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 subven ted sector, including $680 million for a
which will more
760-bed extension to the United Christian Hospital,
than double its size, and $224 million to allow an increase
capacity, from 150 to 700 beds, at the Yan Chai Hospital.
(d) Drug Abuse
in
44.
Preventive education among the young was
Committee Against
extensively promoted:
Narcotics,
by the Action
programmes designed
drug abuse and to
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
with imaginative
to maintain public awareness of the dangers of
enlist public co-operation in reporting the
drug traffickers.
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