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the cost of construction being borne equally by the Lions Clubs of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Government.

PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

166. The major project under construction at the end of the year was the extension of the Queen Mary Hospital to provide expanded teaching facilities and improved specialized services. In addition, the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals were proceeding, with assistance from the Hong Kong Government and from overseas, to erect two infirmaries, one in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon and the other at Sandy Bay on Hong Kong Island; these two projects will add, in the first instance, some 480 convalescent and chronic beds to the medical facilities of the Colony, but a staged expansion of the Wong Tai Sin Infirmary is already planned. Three Government clinics were also under construction at Tsuen Wan and Yuen Long in the New Territories and at Yau Ma Tei in Kowloon.

167. A detailed statement of development can be found in the Statistical Appendix to this report.

VIL TRAINING PROGRAMME

DOCTORS

168. The University of Hong Kong confers the degrees of M.B., B.S.. which have been registrable with the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom since 1911. Posts in the major hospitals are recognized for post-graduate training by the majority of the examining bodies in Britain.

169. Mention has been made in previous reports of the shortage of qualified medical personnel, and facilities available to the Faculty of Medicine, both in the University and at the Queen Mary Hospital, are now being expanded to enable an annual student intake of 120; it is expected that by 1968 some one hundred doctors will be graduating each year. The future requirements of doctors of the Colony as a whole have been intensively examined and discussions with representatives of the University have been undertaken to define the financial and personnel implications of further expansion should this prove to be required at a later date.

170. Following the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the programme for the training of doctors for post-graduate qualifications

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was reviewed by the Panel on Post-Graduate Medical Education, which advised a re-appraisal of trainees in the major specialities. A shortage of experienced personne) has been encountered in certain of the less general specialities, but it is expected that most of these deficiencies will be remedied within the next few years.

DENTAL STAFF

171. No undergraduate training in dentistry is available in Hong Kong, but Government annually awards scholarships for the study of dentistry overseas. Three such scholarships were awarded during the year, while three scholars returned to the Colony after qualification, bringing the total of returned graduates to 27.

172. In-service training in dental technology is available for student dental technicians, while evening classes are held at the Hong Kong Technical College for technicians in private employment. During the year. two student technicians passed the Intermediate Examination in Dental Technology of the City and Guilds of London Institute.

173. One student dental nurse was sent to Penang, where there are now four such students training under scholarships awarded by the World Health Organization. Two nurses returned, having completed their training.

General Nursing

NURSES

174. There is full reciprocity of registration between the general nursing qualifications of the Nursing Board in Hong Kong and of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales. Government maintains two training schools, while the other approved training schools are main- tained by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. The implementation of the White Paper on Development of Medical Services underlined the need for increased training of nursing staff, and most nursing schools increased their intake during the year.

Psychiatric Nursing

175. Training in psychiatric nursing is undertaken at the Castle Peak Hospital but the response, particularly from female students, has remained insufficient to meet the demand for locally-trained psychiatric

nurses.

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