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SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1994

HK'S NEONATAL CARE ACHIEVES WORLD STANDARD

IN THE

ACHIEVEMENTS REMARKABLE

NEONATAL

INTENSIVE CARE PAR WITH MANY MRS PATTEN SAID TODAY

PROGRAMME OVER THE PAST DRCADE HAS PUT HONG KONG ON

INSTITUTIONS

IN NORTH

AMERICA.

LEADING (SATURDAY).

SPEAKING

MRS

IN QUEEN MARY A PREMATURE BABIES REUNION PARTY AT

EXPRESSED

'TO HER

THE HOSPITAL,

GRATITUDE PATTEN

HEALTHCARE GREAT PROFESSIONALS FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND EFFORT IN MAKING SUCH A SUCCESS.

ARR NOW SHE SAID: "LESS THAN 10 PER CENT OF PREMATURE BABIES

SPECIALIST MEDICAL EXPECTED TO DEVELOP COMPLICATIONS WHICH REQUIRE TREATMENT.

THE INFANT MORTALITY RATE NOW STANDS AT A REMARKABLY LOW OF UNDER FIVE AT 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS, SHE ADDED.

LEVEL

BY HOSPITAL MRS PATTEN SAID THIS HAD NOT BEEN BROUGHT ABOUT

BUT

THE ALONE,

THROUGH

WHO ALSO

ORDINARY PEOPLE

HAD HEALTH SERVICES ON WELL TO THE PROMOTIVE AND PREVENTIVE

TREATMENT RESPONDED OFFER.

OF MATERNAL AND MRS PATTEN SAID IN THIS PROCESS, A NETWORK CHILD HEALTH CENTRES HAS BEEN SET UP THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

THESE CENTRES PROVIDE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND IMMUNISATION FOR CHILDREN, AS WELL AS HEALTH EDUCATION FOR WOMEN OF CHILD-BEARING AGE.

OF THE SHE SAID THESE SERVICES WOULD BE EXPANDED TO MEET THE NEEDS COMMUNITY.

EXPECTANT MOTHERS, IN ADDITION, SHE SHOWED DEEP CONCERN OVER

WHO NEEDED PARTICULARLY THOSE HAVING GIVEN RIRTH TO PREMATURE BABIES, A FULL RANGE OF MEDICAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT.

MRS PATTEN SAID THE DEVELOPMENT OF PATIENT RESOURCE CENTRES AND

SCHEMES

NEW

IN WERE

INITIATIVES GOOD EXAMPLES OF

VOLUNTEER

THIS

DIRECTION.

AT

QUEEN INTERESTING FUTURE.

IDEAS FROM

NOTING THAT THE FIRST NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT WAS SET

IN

HOPED PATTEN 1981, MRS MARY HOSPITAL

OTHER THE HOSPITAL AND

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