THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1991
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MEDICAL SERVICES IN NEW TOWNS TO EXPAND
TO MEET THE NEEDS OF
TERRITORIES, THE
GOVERNMENT
THE
HAS
INCREASING
APPROPRIATE
ΤΟ
POPULATION
THE
PLANS
EXPAND THE HOSPITAL IS ONE OF
IN
NEW
MEDICAL SERVICES IN NEW TOWNS, AND THE TUEN MUN MANY PROJECTS FOR THIS PURPOSE.
DR T.Y.
THIS WAS STATED BY THE DIRECTOR OF HOSPITAL SERVICES, CHAU, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF TUEN MUN HOSPITAL TODAY (THURSDAY).
WHICH
ON ITS FIRST ADMITTED
PATIENT THE TUEN MUN HOSPITAL,
GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID MARCH 8 LAST YEAR, WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED BY THE WILSON, THIS AFTERNOON.
ALWAYS SAID IT HAD MEDICAL SERVICES WERE AND THE GOVERNMENT'S
ADDRESSING THE OPENING CEREMONY, DR CHAU
THAT ENSURE BEEN THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TO AVAILABLE WITHIN REASONABLE ACCESS OF CENTRES OF POPULATION, OPENING COMMITMENT.
OF
TUEN MUN
HOSPITAL.
WAS
EVIDENCE
OF THE
WITH SERVICES, WHICH COULD SURGERY AND SPECIAL
APART FROM PROVIDING A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF FACILITIES ALL THE BASIC SPECIALTIES, SPECIALIST UNITS AND SUPPORTING TUEN MUN HOSPITAL HAD A DAY PROCEDURE UNIT WITH 16 BEDS
INCLUDING PROVIDE DAY
MANAGEMENT", INVESTIGATORY PROCEDURES, FOR AMBULATORY PATIENTS.
CARE
PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS "THIS ARRANGEMENT IS SPECIALLY USEFUL FOR
EXPERIENCE OF PROLONGED WHO DO NOT NEED TO GO THROUGH THE TRAUMATIC
AND STAFF HOSPITAL STAY. IT ALSO OPTIMISES THE USE OF HOSPITAL BEDS
IT WARDS.
ALSO REDUCES
OF RISK AND ALLEVIATES CONGESTION IN HOSPITAL CROSS-INFECTION,"
THE
ALL THOSE
WHO HAD
DR CHAU ALSO GAVE HIS HEARTIEST THANKS TO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE HOSPITAL,
THE 1,606-BED TUEN MUN HOSPITAL, WHICH WAS
MARC'H OPERATION IN FIVE PHASES, STARTED INITIAL STAGE, 334 BEDS WERE PROVIDED.
ON
YEAR.
BEING COMMISSIONED A LAST
IN THE
BY EARLY JANUARY WHEN THE SECOND
FOR BEDS SOME 450 ACUTE REDS AND 200 BEEN PUT INTO USE.
PHASE CAME INTO THE MENTALLY-HANDICAPPED HAD
OPERATION,
PHASES SUCCESSIVE WITH IT WAS PLANNED TO PROCEED HOSPITAL IS IN FULL OPERATION IN EARLY 1993.
UNTIL THE
THE
IN ΤΟ MATCH ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY SERVICES WERE ALSO PHASED THE BUILD-UP OF SPECIALTY BEDS TO ACCOMMODATE ADMISSION CASES AND AVAILABILITY OF SUFFICIENT ANCILLIARY FACILITIES.
THE SERVICES STARTED ON JULY 30 LAST YEAR ON A 9 AM
BETWEEN 2 AM AND BASIS, AND WERE EXTENDED TO 12 HOURS
то 5 PM
PM FROM
JANUARY 2.
/IT WAS