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Detailed planning of the Second mental Hospital which will ultimately form part of the Princess Margaret Hospital complex is at an advanced stage and final drawings are now being prepared and approved. is also continuing on the equipment and staffing schedules and other maintenance and administrative aspects of the hospital.
Work
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A considerable degree of assistance was rendered to various assisted hospitals in regard to equipment and detailed planning of new projects, in particular to the Yan Chai and the United Christian hospitals,
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The fuel crisis caused some concern but the actual consumption of all fuels including electricity has been reduced. However, prices of all fuels have escalated to an alarming extent. Furthermore, the cost of almost all supplies and equipment have increased to such an extent as to cause concern and extra labour in procuring supplies in order to keep expenditure at a reasonable level.
AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE
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The Auxiliary Medical Service has nearly 6000 males and females, including some 400 medical officers, nurses and other professional people. Over 2500 of the members are under 24 years of age. There is always a waiting list, of some 400/500 recruits waiting to be enrolled. Members are trained to augment Hong Kong's medical & health services, the ambulance service and rescue services.
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Approximately 4000 officers and members are in the ambulance depot teams, which are dispersed, with the necessary stores, throughout the urban areas, the New Territories and the off-shore islands. Teams are affiliated to the nearest Fire Stations and members carry out duties as drivers and crews of ambulances at veek-ends and on public holidays. Members are also trained in
light rescue and life saving. More than 600 trained life-savers, men and women, carry out regular life-guard duties on the beaches and in public swimming pools, during week-ends and on public holidays. On any one of these days approximately 120 AMS life-savers are performing duty, A considerable number of lives have been saved over the past three years.
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During the Festival of Hong Kong in late 1973 and for the Community Chest "Walks for a Million" many members were called for First aid duty, in different parts of the Colony.
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Officers and members assigned for emergency duties in hospitals carry out ammual training for a week in one of the major hospitals. Others are trained as inoculators, dental surgery assistants, and for work with the chest service.
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All trained members carried out operational duties during the year. Members attended at scenes of all major fires to help care for the injured and homeless, and stood by to assist whenever typhoons threatened. 201.
The band of the AMS performed, on many occasions, in public parks, at departmental functions and gave Christmas concerts at various hospitals both Government and non-government.
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During the year AMS staff lecturers assisted by "lay" lecturers conducted First Aid courses for Government officers a total number of 1,065 having been trained.
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REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL CLINICS
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In accordance with the Medical Clinics Ordinance, all clinics are required to be re-registered annually. On March 31,1974 there were 76 registered static clinics, two registered mobile clinics in the charge of registered medical practitioners, and 335 clinics registered with exemption making a total of 413.
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The low cost medical care scheme, aimed at providing general practitioner services to the population residing in all housing estates, con- tinued to operate. 61 registered medical practitioners took part in the scheme in Group B estates, and 51 in Group A estates. In addition, 35 of the 335 clinics registered with exemption under the Medical Clinics Ordinance (Cap. 343) also operated under the scheme.
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GOVERNMENT-ASSISTED HOSPITALS
Financial assistance, mainly by means of an annual subvention, is given by the Government to certain voluntary organisations maintaining hospitals in Hong Kong. Such hospitals, containing a total of 7,868 beds, provide mainly acute and non-acute general beds, or facilities for persons suffering from certain specific diseases, or handicaps. The total government subvention to these hospitals during the year was $113,183,586 recurrent, and $18,906,617 special expenditure.
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THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS
The Tung Wah Group of hospitals is a long-established Chinese charitable organisation, managed by a board of directors elected annually. During recent years, a programme of modernisation and expansion has been under- taken, with assistances from the Government, in staff especially medical officers and consultant services finance and material. The subvention For this year was $61,298,000.
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مانیان
Construction of the 12-storey Centenary Block in the Tung Wah Hospital was continued, and phase I of the project was completed in August 1972. Work on phase II began in early 1973 and completion is expected to be in late 1974. When completed, the building will have 431 beds, with a new casualty department, X-ray facilities, new operating theatres, and single quarters for 23 medical officers,
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In the Kwong Wah Hospital, planning continued during the year to erect a 10-storey clinical pathology building which will provide accommodation for the clinical pathology service, the physiotherapy department, the occupational therapy department, the medical social service, an orthopaedic ward and other services.
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The casualty section of the Kwong Wah Hospital handles accident cases occurring between Waterloo and Lai Chi Kok roads. Many patients were referred to it by government clinics in Kowloon and the New Territories. a result, this casualty section dealt with cases not only from the northern part of Kowloon peninsula, but also from other areas. The officers attached to the police post, the industrial health division of the Labour Department, and the ambulance control post in the casualty section continued to work in close liaison with the staff there.
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In the Wong Tai Sin Infirmary, there are altogether 681 beds, of which 185 are allocated to the government tuberculosis service. Patients
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