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With regard to Miss Duan's four specific questions s
(a) it is xicting practice within the Government
hospitals that whenever there is a neod for an
interpreter, assistance ie sought in the first
instance from the patient's relatives and frionds
or from other members of the hospital staff who may
be conversant with the patient's language or dialect.
If these sources are unavailable, assistance may
then be sought from outside the hospital such as the
consulates.
(b) Pacients in the custodial werd, like any other
paciente in the hospital, are placed under the care
of an appropriate specialty unit. Any medical
ascistance that is nooded, including emergency
treatment, is provided by the medical staff of that
particular unit under those care the patient has
been placed.
(c) As part of nursing and medical care, restrainers are
used from time to time as a normal part of tho
treatment proceduro. The principle and practice of
the use of restrainers are inherent in the training
and qualification of nursing porocanal. Thus,
restrainors are used at the discretion of the nursing
ccaff in the intereat of the patiente thomsolv02,
to prevent them from injuring themselves or inter-
fering vich certain modes of treatment.
(d) Zuc, Six. In the first instance, a Board of Inquiry
has boon etablished to examine the coroner'
recommendations to see whether these are practicabalo
and, if so, what specific action should be taken in
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