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Maintaining Sustainability
To ensure the hospital medical doctors, 333 nurses and 137 allied
equipment can meet clinical and health professionals. Recruitment
operation need and to introduce new and retention of supporting staff
technology that catch up with the latest has remained a challenge in 2018-
technological advance, the Cluster 2020. More innovative ways to attract
rolled out comprehensive replacement prospective employees were pursued,
plans of aged medical equipment including virtual job fair and enquiry
in both 2018/19 and 2019/20. Major chat room. Through such proactive
replacement plan was made for means, more than 1700 Patient Care
incubators, defibrillators, surgical Assistants/Operations Assistants/
instruments, laboratory equipment, Executive Assistants at entry level
physiotherapy equipment, electric beds have been successfully recruited in the
and bedside monitors, all in good time two financial years.
for the pandemic.
More challenges are expected ahead
No other resources are more treasured as future is uncertain time. But our
and valued than our all-important staff experience has shown that maintaining
force. The size of Full-time Equivalent an innovative and long-term focus can
(FTE) staff count stood at 12,940 by help us ride stormy waters to not only
end of 2019/2020, marking an increase sustain but provide better and safer
of 450 from the previous year. The patient service.
increase in manpower included 102 Chapter IV
