Supplementary to Question No. 6
LegCo meeting on 11.3.87
sir, could the Secretary
elaborate just a
MR. CHEONG-LEEN:
little more specifically on the procedures. If manicure is
included, I suppose pedicure would be included and what else
would there be?
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE: sir, I think it is any
operation which involves piercing the skin. That is where the
danger arises and basically what the new publicity will
will say,
and I have a draft of it here,
draft of it here, is that needles used for these
various purposes should preferably be disposable but if that is
not possible and if they are to be re-used, then they should be
sterilised through boiling for at least
least ten minutes, which we
are advised should kill the AIDS virus and other germs that may
have contaminated these instruments.
MR. SOHMEN: Sir, could the Secretary for Health and Welfare
advise whether Government is noting the measures taken in other
countries to contain
to contain the spread of the AIDS virus, such as by
compulsory examination and whether he proposes to take similar
measures in Hong Kong?