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Question No. 6

REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH & WELFARE TO A QUESTION BY DR HON CONRAD LAM IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY, 7 JANUARY 1987

Question: With regard to the Hospice Care rendered by

some medical staff in hospitals to those terminally ill and their families, will Government inform this Council:

(a) the extent of provision of such services,

and

(b)

whether it has plans to further promote such services on a territory-wide basis, and if so, what the financial commitments will be?

Sir,

Hospice care as pioneered in the United

Kingdom, is a particular type of care of the terminally ill, which requires the total involvement, physical, moral and spiritual, of the patient's family, relatives, friends, and

members of the community, with the aim of keeping the patient

in his home environment and out of hospital for as long as

possible

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