PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on.. 7 April 1977

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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16 April.

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Mr Dan Jones (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what further progress is expected over the next five years in the provision of preventive health service in Hong Kong.

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Over the next five years the Hong Kong Government plan:

(a)

to take steps to ensure the continued absence, further réduction and, where possible, eradication as appropriate of a number of communicable and other diseases;

(b) to increase the number of health centres for mothers and children;

(c) to introduce a comprehensive scheme for the early detection of disabilities among infants and to improve arrangements for eyesight and hearing tests in schools;

(a) to establish a central health education unit and three regional health education centres; and

(e) to improve the organization and standard of health

services for workers.

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