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With regard to Miss Duan's four specific questions s

(a) it is xicting practice within the Government

hospitals that whenever there is a neod for an

interpreter, assistance ie sought in the first

instance from the patient's relatives and frionds

or from other members of the hospital staff who may

be conversant with the patient's language or dialect.

If these sources are unavailable, assistance may

then be sought from outside the hospital such as the

consulates.

(b) Pacients in the custodial werd, like any other

paciente in the hospital, are placed under the care

of an appropriate specialty unit. Any medical

ascistance that is nooded, including emergency

treatment, is provided by the medical staff of that

particular unit under those care the patient has

been placed.

(c) As part of nursing and medical care, restrainers are

used from time to time as a normal part of tho

treatment proceduro. The principle and practice of

the use of restrainers are inherent in the training

and qualification of nursing porocanal. Thus,

restrainors are used at the discretion of the nursing

ccaff in the intereat of the patiente thomsolv02,

to prevent them from injuring themselves or inter-

fering vich certain modes of treatment.

(d) Zuc, Six. In the first instance, a Board of Inquiry

has boon etablished to examine the coroner'

recommendations to see whether these are practicabalo

and, if so, what specific action should be taken in

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