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the Vietnamese Refugee Programme). This will be the facility can provide an additional 50 residential and
mainly due to a decrease in overseas churches' 30 day care places for severely mentally retarded
support and a cut in the Community Chest’s donation. young adults. The Council will need to secure enough
However, ways are now being sought to cut back funds for this expanded service project.
some of our programmes and to request an increase in
5. UNITED CHRISTIAN MEDICAL SERVICE
allocations from Government and the Community
Chest. Nevertheless, one thing is certain, HKCS is The United Christian Hospital had a very full
determined to continue to serve the Hong Kong year. Its bed occupancy rate was one of the highest
community by providing innovative and high quality in the whole city. It served more than 600,000
social services for those in need. In the next few people living in a very crowded district, part of
years, HKCS aims to be (a) a social services laboratory, which is industrial, that has several squatter hut areas
(b) a training ground for committed workers in the and temporary housing estates. Industrial accidents
social services fields, (c) an agent for social education and other illnesses due to the poor living environment
for the general public, and (d) an advocate for more are common. The Government and the hospital are
adequate social welfare policies. now planning a massive expansion programme. By
the time it is completed, the hospital will have 1,400
3. CHRISTIAN FAM ILY SERVICE CENTRE beds.
Christian Family Service Centre is an important Early this year, the United Christian Hospital was
service centre in the Kwun Tong District. It was chosen as one of the hospitals where Polytechnic
started in the mid-1950’s, and since that time has students can study the organization and delivery of
been closely related to the United Presbyterian health care in Hong Kong. In addition, the Chinese
Church U.S.A., the Hong Kong Council, the Church University of Hong Kong Medical Faculty has chosen
of Christ in China and the HKCC. After having served U.C.H. as a teaching hospital for their students until
CFSC as Director for almost three decades, Miss the new University teaching hospital is completed.
Doris Caldwell will retire this October. Miss Nora The hospital’s chaplaincy programme proved to
Yau has been elected as the next Director. Meanwhile, be popular with patients, relatives and even the staff.
in order to guarantee that the CFSC will remain a Several training programmes were conducted during
the year.
Christian service agency, the Board has voted that it
become a related organization of our Council. Like The Kwun Tong Community Health Project
any other such organization, it will continue to have continued to expand and make a significant contri­
its own board and administration, but the Council bution to and impact on the Kwun Tong District
will appoint a simple majority of its board members. Communities and the entire city of Hong Kong.
We want to take this opportunity to thank Miss Several experimental programmes were introduced:
e.g. a Joint Study with the World Health Organization,,
Caldwell for her many years of visionary and dedicated
on Rotavirus; The Anti-Narcotics Experimental
service to the people of Hong Kong.
Programme at Yau Tong; The Community Health
4. SUNNYSIDE HOSTEL
Programme for Tai O in Lan Tau Island; The Evening
Sunnyside first began in 1977 to serve a small Clinic Scheme, etc.
group of severely mentally retarded children as a During the past year, the Sau Mau Ping, Yau
co-operative effort between the Junk Bay Medical Tong, Lam Tin and Occupational Community Health
Relief Council and the Hong Kong Christian Council. Centres continued to do well. There was a marked
Last year Sunnyside was re-organized and ex­ increase in the numbers of patients in all four centres.
panded to become a special boarding school for 50 The Health Maintenance Programme (which includes
severely mentally retarded children and young people. infants, students, adults, elderly people and factory
We are now planning for further expansion so that workers) also was extremely well received. The

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