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Feature Stories

One for All

and All for One

It is an understatement to say that 2018-2020 has been very
tough years. Our service came under unexpected challenges
of a societal and pandemic scale one after one another. Yet
our teams showed great strength, tenacity and resolve to
resist the worse effect of such challenges and continued
to work to live up to our values of putting the needs of our
patients before ourselves.

Others before Ourselves Doing The Right Thing

Covid-19 has upended every aspect of Outside the Pandemic, the NTEC
hospital life the world over. In NTEC, community has been taking every
when the pandemic was looming in opportunity throughout 2018/2020 to
menacingly, the isolation teams of show its determination to brace the
all our hospitals geared themselves odds and do the right things. The Staff
up in no time to meet the challenges Influenza Vaccination Programme
head-on. They, together with all our has broken the record once again in
different healthcare teams, adapted 2019/2020 with a close to 60% staff
to the technical limits and highly vaccination rate in the final count, an
regimental routines without a beat nor a exemplary performance in the HA,
single sigh, while the other supporting building a strong defence for the
forces including the Procurement vulnerable patient groups who could
and Materials Management Teams not take the flu jab. In November 2018,
in different hospitals and the PWH the North District Hospital took the
Microbiology team rose to the opportunity of its 20th anniversary to
challenge and ramped up their service organize a Breast Health Awareness
output in support. They worked in full Fun Day, joined by over 1000 young
steam on a 24-hour basis, churning people and other members of the
out record number of supplies and test community. And to dovetail with
results right on time to help the work the launch of 24-hour thrombolytic
on the frontline. The single-minded service in Taipo and North District
focus in doing everything we could to in 2019, AHNH held a Community
beat the pandemic shown by all levels Stroke Awareness Campaign, which
of staff in the cluster will be a cherished lasted consecutively for 9 months from
memory long after the pandemic November 2018 to July 2019. In the
has passed.