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and ambulance services during emergencies and to provide backup during normal times. In addition, the AMS Cadet Corps provides youths aged between 12 and 17 with training in discipline and medical skills, helping them develop self-discipline and a sense of responsibility.

The AMS First Aid Bicycle Team provides first aid coverage along the cycling tracks between Sha Tin and Tai Po and mans the first aid posts on the tracks in Ma On Shan, Sha Tin and Tai Po during weekends and public holidays. In 2014, the team provided 6,780 man-hours of services. The AMS also runs programmes on first aid at schools and gives talks to the public on heart disease, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, drug abuse and other health related subjects.

In 2014, AMS volunteers were also deployed at the quarantine centre at Lady MacLehose Holiday Village to support the Department of Health's quarantine operation during the avian. influenza A(H7N9) alert.

Websites

Auxiliary Medical Service: www.ams.gov.hk Centre for Health Protection: www.chp.gov.hk Department of Health: www.dh.gov.hk eHealth Record Office: www.eHealth.gov.hk Food and Health Bureau: www.fhb.gov.hk

Gay Men HIV Testing Hotline: www.21171069.com

Healthcare Reform: www.myhealthmychoice.gov.hk

Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health: www.smokefree.hk

Hospital Authority: www.ha.org.hk

Oral Health Education Unit: www.toothclub.gov.hk

Organ Donation Website under the Department of Health: www.organdonation.gov.hk Travel Health Service of the Department of Health: www.travelhealth.gov.hk

Virtual AIDS Office of the Department of Health: www.info.gov.hk/aids/

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