§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish details of the Hong Kong Government's hospital building programme since the end of the last war.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe major Government hospitals opened in Hong Kong since the last war are as follows:
- Tsan Yuk Government Maternity Hospital opened in 1954 (300 beds);
- Castle Peak Mental Hospital opened in 1961 (1,242 beds);
- Drug Addiction and Rehabilitation Centre opened in March 1961;
263 - Queen Elizabeth General Hospital opened in September 1963 (1,596 beds);
- Tang Shiu Kin Hospital opened in April 1969 (76 beds).
Major Government projects in hand are the new Lai Chi Kok Hospital and the Shiu Lam Hospital for the mentally subnormal.
Since the end of the war the total number of beds in Government and Government-assisted hospitals has risen from some 2,800 to more than 14,000.