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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1987

AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICES COMMENDED

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THE AUXILIARY SELFLESS AND

FOR THE

SERVICES (AMS)

PAST HAVE

37

YEARS

A MADE

OF MEMBERS CONSISTENTLY

MEDICAL UNSTINTING DAVID

CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELFARE OF OUR COMMUNITY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR WILSON, SAID TONIGHT (MONDAY).

SIR DAVID SPEAKING AT THE AMS OFFICERS MESS DINNER, AMS PERFORMED A VITAL ROLE IN THE MEDICAL CIVIL DEFENCE IN AND SUCH CONTRIBUTIONS WERE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

SAID THE HONG KONG

TO KNOW THAT 6,000 "IT IS ALSO REASSURING FOR THE COMMUNITY

AND AMBULANCE DEDICATED MEN AND WOMEN STAND READY TO AUGMENT MEDICAL

SIR DAVID SAID. SERVICES IN TIMES OF NEED,

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ACTIVELY

THEY

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT MEMBERS OF THE SERVICES HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN LIFE GUARD, FIRST AID AND AMBULANCE DUTIES. BESIDES, HAD ALSO ASSISTED IN REFUGEE AND METHADONE CLINIC ASSIGNMENTS.

THE

AMS

WILL

HAVE

AN

YOU

AND

то CONTINUE "THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT IMPORTANT ROLE ΤΟ PLAY IN THE YEARS AHEAD, I AM SURE TOO THAT

THE SAME

EFFICIENCY DEVOTION, WITH WILL MEET YOUR CHALLENGES CHEERFULNESS AS YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED IN THE PAST," SIR DAVID SAID.

SIR DAVID ALSO CONGRATULATED AMS MEMBERS ON THE COMMUNITY IN THE PAST YEAR AND THANKED HAD DONE.

THEIR SERVICE TO THEM ALL FOR WHAT THEY

MEANWHILE,

IN HIS

WELCOMING

ADDRESS,

THE

COMMISSIONER

OF

PRIVILEGE

AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICES, DR K.L. THONG, SAID IT IS BOTH AND HONOUR TO HAVE SIR DAVID AT THE MESS DINNER FOR THE FIRST TIME.

FOR AMS OFFICERS DR THONG SAID IT IS A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION TO MEET THE GOVERNOR IN PERSON IN RELAXED AND CONGENIAL SURROUNDINGS.

SIR DAVID MOST LOOK FORWARD

"ON BEHALF OF THE AMS, I SHOULD LIKE TO THANK WARMLY FOR HIS DEEP PERSONAL INTEREST IN THE AMS AND WE

HE SAID. TO MANY MORE YEARS OF HIS GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT,

THONG SAID SINCE ITS

37 INCEPTION SPEAKING ON THE AMS, DR

FROM LESS THAN YEARS AGO, THE SERVICES HAD PROGRESSED AND DEVELOPED

FORCE 2,000 VOLUNTEERS IN 1950 INTO THE PRESENT MEDICAL CIVIL DEFENCE OF NEARLY 6,000 TRAINED MEMBERS.

HAD DURING THE 12-MONTH PERIOD ENDING APRIL, 1987, THE MEMBERS

FIRST-AID PROVIDING

COVERAGE AT PUBLIC SPENT 108,896 MAN-HOURS IN FUNCTIONS AND COUNTRY PARKS.

ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS, 23,232 MAN-HOURS WERE SPENT

WERE SPENT BY MANNING AMBULANCES AND A FURTHER 5,008 MAN-HOURS MEMBERS WHO WERE DRIVERS OF AMBULANCES.

ON

AMS

SOME 160 MEMBERS AND GUESTS ATTENDED TONIGHT'S DINNER.

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