Prosthetic-Orthotic Service
Prosthetic & Orthotic Services are required for the treatment of patients with physical disability caused by disease or injury. These people are fitted and supplied with various prosthetic and orthotic appliances designed to restore wholly or partly their bodily functions and/or appearance.
In 1987, a total of 22 769 patients were treated and 56 104 attendances were recorded.
The Forensic Pathology Service with its fully established forensic laboratory works closely with the Royal Hong Kong Police Force on the medical aspect of criminology and other medico-legal work. The work of the service also includes investigations in all homicides and coroner's cases. The professional staff dealt with a total of 4 663 post-mortem examinations, 1 081 clinical examinations and blood groupings, and 5 796 laboratory examinations in 1997.
Community Nursing Service
The Community Nursing Service extends continuing care to patients discharged from hospitals after suffering from acute illness and provides domiciliary medical care and support for the sick, disabled and the elderly in their own homes. The services are delivered by community nurses and include skilled nursing care, supportive mobility and physiotherapy exercises as well as health educational advice. The nurses encourage patients, with the help of their families, to participate in their own treatment and rehabilitation through supportive care and health teaching, thus assisting in the prevention of relapse.
Jointly operated by eight agencies including the Medical and Health Department, the service is regionally based, with domiciliary service provided through a network of 48 hospital stations and satellite centres. During the year, 12 260 patients were treated by community nurses and 227 896 home visits were made.
Pathology Service
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The Pathology Service provides clinical and public health laboratory services to Government hospitals and clinics, and a consultancy service for the Government-assisted sector, It also administers hospital mortuaries and blood banks. In 1997, a total of 17.03 million tests were undertaken by the service representing an increase of 15t over the previous year. 45 934 units of whole blood and 40 934 units of packed cells were received by the blood banks in the year,
The Institute of Immunology undertakes the monitoring and quality control of biological products including poliomyelitis vaccines for use in the local health services. A total of 148 345 ml of vaccines were produced in 1987. The Vixus Unit provides a central laboratory service for the diagnosis and surveillance of various viral infections including AIDS. also provides invaluable services for the screening, assessment and guidance of vaccination programmes against viral infections for the community.
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In 1984, a Central Nec-natal Screening Laboratory was established in the Kwong Wah Hospital. The main function of this unit is to co-ordinate the laboratory activities of the territory-wide neo-natal screening programme on congenital hypothyroidism and glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase deficiency,
Radiology and Oncology Service
The Medical & Health Department's Institute of Radiology and Oncology comprises of two major Divisions: the Diagnostic Radiology Division with the Nuclear Medicine Section, the Radiotherapy and Oncology Division with the Radiobiology Section and the Medical Physics Section.
The Diagnostic Radiology Division provides a comprehensive diagnostic organ imaging service including conventional radiography, ultrasonography and computed tomography, for Government institutions and one Government subvented hospital, the Nam Long Hospital. A consultation service is available to all Government subvented hospitals and private medical practitioners on a fee charging basis. It is also involved in the planning of imaging departments of all new projects for hospital and specialty clinics.
The Nuclear Medicine Section, based at Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals, is under the charge of a consultant of nuclear medicine. The function of the Section is to provide all aspects of clinical and laboratory nuclear medicine which involve the use of unsealed radionuclides in the diagnosis and management of disease.
The Radiotherapy and Oncology Division, based at the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and Prince of Wales Hospitals, provides a comprehensive radiotherapy as well as chemotherapy service. The Division treats about 85% of the cancer patients requiring radiation therapy in the population following the opening of another radiotherapy department in the private sector, It also treats private patients on a fee charging basis and is also involved in the planning of radiotherapy departments of all new hospital projects. The Division also operates a cancer registry which is responsible for the collection, compilation and analysis of cancer statistics for the whole territory.
The Radiobiology Section is engaged in cancer and radiobiological research.. The Section plays an essential role in the basic training of radiotherapists and oncologists.
The Medical Physics Section looks after all the radiology, radiation related, and ancillary equipment of the Institute in all respects. It also provides medical physics service and basic training in radiation physics to the professional and technical staff of the Institute. The Section also participates in the planning of new radiological project within the Institute and other units, and is also responsible for radiation safety within the Department as a whole,
The Institute operates 4 in-service training courses : one for radiologists, one for radiotherapists and oncologists for the fellowship examinations of the Royal College of Radiologists in the United Kingdom, for therapy radiographers for the diploma examination of the College of Radiographers in London, and one for Mould Laboratory Technicians for the certificate examination in Mould Laboratory Technology of the Medical and Health Department.
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