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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1989

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AMS CADET CORPS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS

SIR

DAVID

FULL HAS GIVEN HIS

ESTABLISH AN AMS STUDENTS ΤΟ PROVIDE A

FORD, SECRETARY, THE CHIEF SUPPORT TO THE AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICES' PLAN TO CADET CORPS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO TRAIN FIRST AID SERVICE.

NIGHT (FRIDAY), WOULD "PROVIDE VERY A FURTHER GIVE THEM

SPEAKING AT THE AMS OFFICERS MESS DINNER LAST SIR DAVID DESCRIBED THE IDEA AS VERY GOOD AS IT PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND WILL WAY OF CONTRIBUTING TO OUR COMMUNITY".

THE CHIEF SECRETARY THANKED THE AMS FOR PROVIDING SOME 100 MEMBERS TO HELP RUN CAMPS FOR VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE SINCE APRIL YEAR.

AMS LAST

THE CAMPS NOT ONLY "YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF

FOR THE PEOPLE, IT ALSO HELPS TO PROVIDES THE MUCH NEEDED CARE

STAFF AT A TIME WHEN RELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT'S MEDICAL AND NURSING THEY ARE UNDER GREAT PRESSURE THEMSELVES," HE SAID.

'AS A COMMUNITY, WE HAVE A FINE TRADITION OF VOLUNTEER

OF WHICH THE AMS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE.

IN HIS SPEECH, THE COMMISSIONER OF THE AMS, DR S.H. 1989 HAD SO FAR BEEN A BUSY YEAR FOR THE 6,000-MEMBER FORCE.

SERVICE

LEE, SAID

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE COMPOUNDED LABOUR SHORTAGE, THE AMS HAS

ITS

TO RESOURCES

MEET MOBILISING

"WITH THE LARGE INFLUX OF WITH THE PROBLEMS OF BRAIN DRAIN AND

PRESSURE BEEN UNDER EXTREME VARIOUS CHALLENGES," HE SAID.

IN

"DESPITE THIS,

IT

CONTINUES

то

PERFORM

ESSENTIAL

CLINICAL

DUTIES AT VARIOUS VBP DETENTION CAMPS ROUND-THE-CLOCK.

AT

"THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE PROVISION OF FIRST AID COVERAGE

SERVICES, LIFEGUARD

MANNING OF PUBLIC FUNCTIONS AND COUNTRY PARKS, METHADONE CLINICS AND TRAINING OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN FIRST AID,

"

DR LEE SAID THAT TO MEET THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR ITS SERVICE, GET THE AMS HAD RECENTLY LAUNCHED A RECRUITMENT DRIVE IN AN EFFORT TO MORE PROFESSIONALS, ESPECIALLY DOCTORS AND NURSES, TO JOIN THE COLUMN.

PROGRESS SO FAR HAD BEEN ENCOURAGING.

OF THE AMS AND AND THANKED ALL AMS

THE COMMISSIONER ALSO REFERRED TO THE GROWTH VARIOUS TASKS ACCOMPLISHED OVER THE PAST YEAR, OFFICERS AND MEMBERS FOR THEIR LOYALTY AND DEDICATION.

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