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FIGURE 12
TOTAL OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCES IN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
1964 1973
154.
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
Pressure remained heavy throughout the year on all 49 general out-patient clinics and also on most specialist clinics. Trends during the past 10 years are shown in Figure 12,
155.
New facilities which became available during the year are detailed in paragraph 260 of this report.
156.
In addition to general out-patient service, regular out-patient sessions were maintained at a large number of clinics by staff of specialist units. Evening out-patient sessions continued to be held at 10 clinics in the more densely populated areas. They are the Aberdeen Jockey Club Clinic, the Kowloon Hospital out-patient department, the Kwun Tong Jockey Club Clinic, the Lady Trench Polyclinic, the Li Po Chun Health Centre, the Robert Black Heal th Centre, the Sai Ying Pun Jockey Club Polyclinic, the Shau Kei Wan Jockey Club Polyclinic, the Violet Peel Polyclinic and the Yau Ma Tei Jockey Club Polyclinic. Sunday and public holiday clinics were also held at six of the clinics. The more remote areas of the New Territories continued to be served by two mobile dispensaries and the 'Floating clinics', while the 'flying doctor" service to more isolated and inaccessible villages was maintained.
1964
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157.
SPECIALIST SERVICES
The Department provides specialist services in anaesthesiology, dentistry, medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, paediatrics, psychiatry, radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy, social hygiene, general surgery, thoracic surgery and tuberculosic. In addition, professors of the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine act as consultants in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, pathology and paediatrics. A number of government consultants act as honorary consultants to the Tung Wah group of hospitals, and others serve as part-time lecturers in the University's clinical departments.
158.
RADIOLOGICAL SERVICES
The Medical and Health Department Institute of Radiology comprises five divisions:- radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy, radiation physics, radioisotope, radiobiology and clinical photography.
159.
The radiodiagnostic division provides an X-ray diagnostic service mainly for government institutions, and one government subvented hospital, the Pok Oi in the New Territories. A free consultant service is available to the Tung Wah group of hospitals and Yan Chai Hospital but for medical practitioners in private practice a consultant service is provided on payment of a fee. In all, 20 static x-ray departments and three mobile chest radiography units were in operation with a total output of 813,901 examinations, an increase of approximately five per cent over the previous year. During 1973, a major diagnostic x-ray machine, with cineradiography, screening and television monitoring facilities, was installed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital X-ray Department A new Chest X-ray Department vas opened at the Evai Chung Chest Clinic. During the year four 90-second automatic x-ray film processing machines were installed in Kowloon, Sai Ying Pun and Shau Kei Wan Chest Clinics and the Casualty X-ray Section of Queen Elizabeth Hospital and one more x-ray department
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