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who are responsible to the Director of Operations for the overall co-ordination on the delivery of medical services during disasters.
The emergency contact telephone numbers of the relevant duty officers in HA/DH are listed in the 'Hospital Authority Emergency Duty Roster' and 'Department of Health Emergency & General Duty Roster', copies of which are distributed to Departments concerned and also kept in the GSECC.
Major Hospitals
6.
The key institutions are the acute hospitals of HA.
These all have Accident and Emergency Departments.
All will be involved during an emergency but those in
area affected by disturbances would be particularly important.
7.
an
The responsibility for
putting the plans
Headquarter Duty concerned and the
into action would lie with the Officer/Hospital Chief Executives Medical Superintendents of the institutions in the concerned region. If necessary the HQDO would request assistance from institutions in other regions.
8.
Each major acute hospital is supplied with an emergency generator but this is not adequate to keep the hospital working at full capacity. For this reason hospitals would have to have a high priority for the maintenance of electricity supplies.
Private Hospitals
9.
There
private hospitals stations
that it would
are existing arrangements whereby can be used as convalescent using AMS personnel. It is not envisaged be necessary to use private hospitals this role. It is not considered machinery to be set up to requisition the private hospitals or to enlist medical and nursing staff in the private sector.
other than in
necessary for
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