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becomes serious. And then to demand instant cure, so that we can continue to work! This is all wrong, and we know it! So
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we changed our attitudes and invest in our health when we are still healthy. This investment requires both time, time to keep-fit and money spent on preventive care. Medica
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Turning now to my third proposal. To exhaust the potentials of our subvented hospitals a working party chaired by a official, with rich hospital experience, must be set immediately to study the state of hospital equipments subvented hospitals. The main objective is to upgrade the equipment there. A fund of no less than $18 million should be
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far the mest important cause of a low occupancy rate in subvented hospitals. However, we have to begin somewhere, and equipment is an easily quantifiable item. Anyone would agree 35 that new technological advances save human resources which we so lack. $18 million is a small sum compared to the cost to
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