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For example, new ambulance depots are to be planned for in North Point, Sheung Wan, Kwai Chung and Kowloon Tong.
Another long-term measure is to provide an additional 31 ambulances and crew and 10 ambulance aid motorcycles, identified as necessary to meet the 95 per cent performance pledge.
Paramedic services, which are currently provided in up to 13 per cent of the total ambulance fleet, are also to be extended to all ambulances and ambulance aid motorcycles.
Mr Fong added: "In our next submission for resources allocation, we will also take into account the views expressed by the staff side."
Mr Fong also exchanged views with the staff side on the process of the Resource Allocation Exercise.
"We will be working together with the staff side and hope that the ambulance service could be further developed in the next couple of years," he said.
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Volume and price movements of external trade in November
In the first 11 months of 1995, the volume of re-exports increased by 14% over the same period last year, while the volume of domestic exports increased by 2.3%, according to statistics released today (Friday) by the Census and Statistics Department.
Taking re-exports and domestic exports together, the volume of total exports increased by 12%. Meanwhile, imports increased by 14% in volume.
The growth in the volume of trade is derived from the growth in trade values with the effect of price changes being discounted.
As regards price changes over the same period of comparison, the prices of re- exports and domestic exports increased by 3.6% and 2.5% respectively. Import prices increased by 5.3%.