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Hospital Authority sends more medical team members to Sichuan (with photo)
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The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

    The fourth batch of a group of 22 healthcare professionals was deployed by the Hospital Authority (HA) to Chengdu in Sichuan this morning (May 23) to join the medical team, led by the Chief of Service (Accident and Emergency) of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Dr Lau Chor-chiu to facilitate and support the medical rescue operation in Sichuan.

    The 22-member team comprises mainly doctors and nurses in Orthopaedic and Traumatology and Anaesthesiology, together with two physiotherapists and six nurses of an operating theatre unit and central sterile supplies department.  The professionals are drawn from 10 public hospitals - the Caritas Medical Centre, Kwong Wah Hospital, North District Hospital, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, Tuen Mun Hospital, United Christian Hospital and Yan Chai Hospital. 

    At present, there are 43 healthcare professionals in the HA medical team to provide medical support services for the injured in West China Hospital, West China Second Hospital and Chengdu Childrenˇ¦s Hospital in Chengdu.

Ends/Friday, May 23, 2008
Issued at HKT 16:02

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