1
2
4
5
6
7
серд
Ž
innovative projects to secure jobs for these people, this will give them self-respect and a quality of life they yearn for so much. Furthermore, it will in the long run save the unnecessary Government expenditure
to sustain lives without meaning.
Z
Sir, prevention is still better than cure and before I follow the footsteps of our senior member and plunge into marriage, I continue to wait the materialisation
Siv N10 of separate taxation for married women. with these
人
9
11
few remarks, Sir, I support your motion.
12
13
DR. CHIU Hin kwong:
Can14
15
16
17
18
NP 19
cap
20
Sir, the Financial Secretary in
the 1988 and 1989 draft estimates of expenditure generously allocated a bigger slice of cake for various public services including medical and health services, social
welfare and education. The share for medical and
bir cent health services is boosted to 9.7% of total Government
annual expenditure, equalling $6.1 billion. [Past
experience tells us that a large proportion of the 21 medical budget will go to hospital care. In recent
years, hospital costs have been soaring and the
22
23
Cc 25°
demand for costly hospital services is ever increasing. 24 Today the cost of in-patient care has become so high
that our acute hospital should evolve into an institution where only those who need highly technical
and specialised care would be admitted for treatment
26
27
28
2220
29
30
At the same time, the practice of medicine outside hospitals, particularly at the neighbourhood level, 31 should be stretched. In the next decade, a balanced 32 health system which personal and continued care
are available at the neighbourhood level will be needed.
Hospital will assume a subordinate role: it will only provide specialised support when it is called for. Why
33
34
NP 35
36