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The activities center and the gaming room in the sanatorium was used for the clinical examination.

There were two ping pong tables in the activities center, placed rather widely apart. If both of the tables were dismantled and their components pushed apart, hundreds of square meters of real estate would suddenly be made available, and if the heavy wooden doors separating the activities center were pushed open, a gaming room that was around six hundred square meters would be revealed. The area was divided into separate sections for Go, Chinese Chess, Bridge, Mahjong, and other games.

Curtains have been placed in the middle of the entire area—dividing it in two to make up the activities center and the gaming room—and the clinical examination area. Varying veteran cadres with varying appointment times arrived leisurely as care workers ushered them with open arms.