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APPENDIX 30

(Chapter 11: Health) Hospital Beds

Category of hospitals

Hospital Authority hospitals

Correctional Institutions

Government maternity homes/clinics

Private hospitals

Private nursing/maternity homes

Total

APPENDICES

Note: Provisional figures.

APPENDIX 31

(Chapter 11: Health)

Professional Medical Personnel

As at end of year

1990

1991

1992†

21 374

21 684

22.395

759

776

827

315

173

164

2790

2.907

2955

44

44

44

25 282

25 584

26 385

As at end of year

Under

او

In Government service

Hospital Authority §

Total registered

1991# 1992 #

Medical Doctors

Interns on provisional register Externs on provisional register

1990 1846@ 456@ 447@_2218@ 2333@

234

1991 1992

1990 1991

1992

6260

6545

6818

234

254

233

232

272

54

63

21

54

63

69

Dental - Dentists

173

181

182

5

4

1 532

1 526

1565

Dental hygienists

4

3

4

89

98

108

Nursing - Registered nurses (general)

7 879

828

841

10 744 11 113

19 121

20 072

20 884

Registered nurses (psychiatric) 1052

Registered nurses

1 033

1 037

1 242

1 315

1 367

(mental subnormal)

11

13

16

Registered nurses (sick children)

3

4

6

Enrolled nurses (general)

1 616

329

325

3 064

3 219

6 724

7 047

7 451

Enrolled nurses (psychiatric)

589

640

661

578

611

689

Midwives - Midwives (without

nursing qualification)

211

107

98

141

131

981

981

981

Pharmacy and Poisons - Pharmacists

80

28

29

82

87

694

720

784

Medical Laboratory Technologists

593

218

227

303

316

1 826

2 158

Occupational Therapist

156

4

3

213

213

438

499

Note: Annual re-registration is required for doctors, dentists, pharmacists, medical laboratory technologists and occupational therapists.

Registration for medical laboratory technologists and occupational therapists started in 1991.

§ The management responsibility of all public hospitals was taken over by Hospital Authority on December 1, 1991.

# Figures for 1991 and 1992 were those working in the Department of Health.

@Including unregistrable medical officers.

Including the professional medical/dental personnel on both the local and overseas lists.

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