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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