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	Hong Kong: Chronic Staff Shortages Plague Rural Hospitals
	The mainland's rural hospitals, facing a chronic shortage of medical staff, are struggling to treat a soaring number of patients, a national survey has found. The findings raise concern that, as many rural doctors and nurses are lured to the cities with better-paid jobs, there will be little chance of meeting a national target to have 90 per cent of rural patients treated locally by next year.
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	Hong Kong: China to Simulate Nuclear Crisis for National Emergency Drill Next Year
	A national nuclear disaster drill will be staged next year in Guangdong, home to some of the largest and oldest commercial reactors in China, Xinhua reports. The 2015 Shendun (or “Heavenly Shield”) will be the first such drill since 2009. Yao Bin, deputy director with the National Nuclear Emergency Response Office in Beijing, told the state news agency that the drill would be larger in scale and more sophisticated than other drills held in recent years. Yao said the exercises would involve the central government, provincial authorities and nuclear power plant operators' participation.
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	Hong Kong: Ambulance Cameras will Catch Drivers Blocking Emergency Vehicles, Shenzhen Warns
	Drivers in Shenzhen have been warned that new cameras mounted on ambulances will record any cars blocking emergency vehicles. Later this year, all ambulances managed by the 120 network will have cameras fitted. Staff at the Shenzhen Emergency Centre told the Shenzhen Evening News on May 20 that the cameras will be able to capture images of cars blocking their path. The evidence will be used to issue penalties.
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	Hong Kong: Driver Burned in Toxic Spill
	A van driver was last night in isolation at a public hospital and being treated for burns after a highly toxic chemical was spilled on a street in Yau Ma Tei. Four health-care workers at Kwong Wah Hospital who treated the driver became unwell but did not need treatment. A resuscitation room at the hospital in Yau Ma Tei, which became contaminated, was closed, while the Accident and Emergency Department was disrupted for 3 hours.
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	Hong Kong: Medical Simulation Centres Teach Doctors how to cope with a Crisis ? upload
	A man lies on the operating table, a heart monitor bleeping his vital signs. There are 5 others in the theatre: 2 doctors, 2 nurses and an assistant. They are scrubbed up, ready for surgery, but something is wrong. “It was a challenging scenario and all about assertive communication and how you deal with hierarchy if the surgeon does something wrong," says Leung, who has worked in Accident and Emergency for 10 years. Medical simulation is an education technique. Put simply, it's an opportunity for medics to practise before they do the real thing and is based on aviation simulation techniques. It has become an important element of healt
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Hong Kong: Chronic Staff Shortages Plague Rural Hospitals

Hong Kong: China to Simulate Nuclear Crisis for National Emergency Drill Next Year

Hong Kong: Ambulance Cameras will Catch Drivers Blocking Emergency Vehicles, Shenzhen Warns

Hong Kong: Driver Burned in Toxic Spill

Hong Kong: Medical Simulation Centres Teach Doctors how to cope with a Crisis ? upload

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