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HEALTH
Queen Elizabeth Hospital serves as the main emergency and specialist hospital for Kowloon and the New Territories and has 1,523 beds, with all necessary ancillary and specialist services. It also contains the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute of Radio- logy which incorporates the most modern equipment for radio- therapy and is probably the most comprehensive centre in South- East Asia for the treatment of malignant diseases.
The Kowloon Hospital is used mainly as a subsidiary to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for patients requiring convalescent care and rehabilitation. There are 500 beds of which 171, linked with thoracic surgery and pulmonary function units, are allocated to the care of patients suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases of the chest. Construction work is continuing on the additional block of 600 beds which, when completed, will give a total of 1,100 beds at this hospital.
On Hong Kong Island Government maintains another large general hospital, the Queen Mary Hospital, which performs the same functions for the island as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital does for Kowloon, and is also the teaching hospital for the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong. A phased programme of alterations, designed to add 508 beds and bringing the hospital's bed complement to 1,140, continued during the year, and is expected to be completed by the end of 1969.
Other government hospitals are maintained chiefly for specialized purposes. Apart from the Castle Peak Hospital, they include two infectious disease hospitals (one of which also accommodates convalescent patients from the two acute emergency hospitals), a maternity hospital of 241 beds, where the teaching of medical students and training of midwives is carried out, and a small hospital for the treatment of skin diseases in women and children. Two smaller general hospitals are maintained, one on Cheung Chau Island and the other on Lantau Island. Small hospitals are also established in the Colony's prisons, and maternity beds for normal midwifery are provided in many government clinics and dispensaries.
The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals is a charitable organization founded 98 years ago and managed by a board of directors elected annually. It operates three general hospitals, the Tung Wah, the Tung Wah Eastern and the Kwong Wah with a total of 2,904 beds,
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