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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1987

COULD

HE SAID THAT MANY A TIME, MEDICAL CENTRES IN RURAL AREAS ONLY SERVE AS TRANSFERRING

BECAUSE THEIR AGENCIES

LESS-EQUIPPED MEET THE REQUIREMENTS ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY UNITS COULD NOT ALWAYS OF EMERGENCY TREATMENT.

OF

STANDARDS

AND AREAS

"ALL THESE FACTS POINT TO ONE DIRECTION, THAT IS THE

SUPPLY AND

OF THE MANPOWER

ACCIDENT FACILITIES MEDICAL EMERGENCY UNITS OF DISTRICT HOSPITALS ESPECIALLY THOSE IN RURAL NEED TO BE STRENGTHENED," HE SAID.

DR CHIU WENT ON TO SAY

DEPARTMENT

THAT ENERGENCY RESUSCITATION WAS OF BE DONE IN THE VITAL IMPORTANCE FOR THE CRITICALLY ILL AND SHOULD

UPON ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY

IMMEDIATELY ARRIVAL BUT NOT IN HOSPITAL WARDS BECAUSE TIME MUST NOT WAITING FOR TROLLEY TRANSFER OR HOSPITAL LIFTS.

A

BE

PATIENT'S WASTED IN

A "IT IS

COMMON

*RESUSCITATION SQUADS'

I

RECEIPT OF AN EMERGENCY ANOTHER IMPORTANT AREA WHICH INTO.

HE

THE

FOR PRACTICE

ADVANCED HOSPITALS THAT WOULD TAKE PROMPT ACTIONS

SAID. CALL,

GOVERNMENT

HE

ADDED SHOULD

ΤΟ HAVE UPON THE THIS THAT

WAS LOOK SERIOUSLY

HE SAID

TURNING TO THE LEVEL OF TRAINING FOR AMBULANCE STAFF,

CIRCLE THAT THE LEVEL OF IT WAS THE CONSENSUS VIEW IN THE MEDICAL

REINFORCED. THEIR SKILLS IN TRAINING FOR AMBULANCE STAFF SHOULD BE

KEEPING PROVIDING FIRST AID MEASURES SUCH AS ARREST OF HAEMORRHAGE, AIR WAY CLEAR,

RESPIRATION, EXTERNAL

MASSAGE, ARTIFICIAL MATERNAL DELIVERY AND SO FORTH SHOULD BE FURTHER POLISHED.

TO

CARDIAC

OF HONG KONG'S HE ALSO SAID THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE BETTER USE

THERE

BE SHOULD EXISTING RESOURCES AND

INCREASE EFFICIENCY,

LEVEL OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF AMBULANCE SERVICE TO CATER FOR DIFFERENT SERVICE REQUIRED.

FROM

HAVE SUFFICIENT FACILITIES. WHEN TRANSFERRING

TO HOSPITAL

HOME AND BETWEEN WITH TRAINED PERSONNEL WAS A

AMBULANCE DEALING WITH EMERGENCY CALLS SHOULD WELL-TRAINED STAFF AND FULLY-EQUIPPED PATIENTS IN STABLE HOSPITALS, A WELL-EQUIPPED AMBULANCE WASTE OF RESOURCES.

CONDITIONS

··

MINIBUS MANNED

HE SAID.

BY TWO

"IN THIS SITUATION, A COMFORTABLE AMBULANCEMEN INSTEAD OF THREE WOULD DE QUITE ADEQUATE,

BELIEVE HE ADDED THAT SOME OF HIS MEDICAL COLLEAGUES TENDED TO

AMBULANCE TO COME UNDER THE THAT IT WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE FOR

THAN UNDER THE FIRE SERVICES MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT RATHER

OF THE VIEW DEPARTMENT. IN

SETTINGS PHYSICAL OF THE EXISTING

THE PRESENT AMBULANCE SERVICE, IT MIGHT NOT BE PRACTICAL TO DO SO AT TIME.

WITH THIS REGARD, 1 MUST STRESS THAT THE

ROLE IN VITAL DEPARTMENT SHOULD PLAY A AMBULANCE SERVICE, HE CONCLUDED,

THE

MEDICAL PROVISION

AND

OF

HEALTH! QUALITY

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