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2.
Hospice care in the full sense is not yet available
in Hong Kong, although I understand that at present a
simplified form of this service exists at Our Lady of
Maryknoll Hospital, and that the Nam Long and United
Christian Hospitals are considering variations of the same
concept.
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The Director of Medical and Health Services
considers that terminally-ill patients in public hospitals are generally adequately attended to, and while we welcome
the initiative taken by the hospitals I have mentioned,
there are no immediate plans to introduce hospice care in
the public sector as a whole. Terminally ill patients and
their families have access to expert advice and counselling
from doctors, nurses and medical social workers, all of whom
have the same objective of providing support for
terminally-ill patients in such a way as to alleviate their symptoms and pain and to relieve the isolation, anxiety and
fear associated with incurable diseases.
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