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Bureau, staffed by 96 civil servants) is to reinforce regular medical, health and ambulance services during emergencies and to provide backup during ordinary times.
The AMS has a Psychosocial Response Team with about 40 members possessing psychosocial first aid knowledge and skills. Following the collision of two passenger vessels near Lamma Island on 1 October, 29 members of the team were mobilised to assist people suffering emotional shock at hospitals and the public mortuary. In June 2012, 588 volunteer members completed a Psychosocial First Aid Training Course jointly organised by the AMS and the Chinese University of Hong Kong to strengthen the psychosocial first aid support services.
The AMS first aid bicycle team provides first aid coverage along the cycling tracks between Tai Wai and Tai Po and mans the first aid posts on the tracks in Ma On Shan, Sha Tin and Tai Po during weekends and public holidays. In 2012, the team deployed about 6,440 man-hours on first aid services. The AMS also runs programmes on first aid and on safety at schools for teachers, students and their parents, and gives talks to the public on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, drug abuse and other such matters.
Websites
Food and Health Bureau: www.fhb.gov.hk eHealth Record Office: www.eHealth.gov.hk Department of Health: www.dh.gov.hk
Organ Donation Website under the Department of Health: www.organdonation.gov.hk Centre for Health Protection: www.chp.gov.hk
Hospital Authority: www.ha.org.hk
Auxiliary Medical Service: www.ams.gov.hk
Health and Medical Development Advisory Committee: www.fhb.gov.hk/hmdac Healthcare Reform: www.myhealthmychoice.gov.hk
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