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57. There have been recent improvements to primary health care, including the introduction of a medical records system and an appointments system at general out-patient clinics and of a pilot scheme to organise primary health care on a district basis with community participation.
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Right to a Healthy Environment (Paragraph 2(b))
The 1980s saw the development of comprehensive control legislation for all areas of pollution. By 1989 an adequate legislative framework was in place, and a 10 year Environmental Protection Strategy was produced. This was embodied in the White Paper on Pollution, the Sewage Strategy, and the Waste Disposal Plan, all completed in 1989. The 10 year strategy sets target dates for the achievement of a substantial number of environment pollution aims.
59. The Water Pollution Control Ordinance, first enacted in 1980, is the principal ordinance to control the pollution of the waters of Hong Kong. In 1990, comprehensive amendments to the Ordinance were made to impose stringent control of all discharges and deposits within specified water control zones through a licensing system administered by the Environmental Protection Department. Controls are now in force in six water control zones. The remaining territorial waters are planned to come within regulatory controls by 1995. Marine dumping activities are controlled by a licensing scheme under the Dumping at Sea Act 1974 (Overseas Territories) Order 1975. Disposal is normally restricted to uncontaminated dredged spoil materials. A comprehensive sewage strategy was adopted in 1988. It provides for stronger legislation to control effluent disposal, local sewerage improvements through 16 regional sewerage master plans, and a four-stage strategic sewage disposal scheme to transfer sewage collected in urban areas to a central sewage treatment plant on the Stonecutters Island before its disposal via a 30km oceanic outfall. Detailed design or construction works for six sewerage master plans have started whilst studies of the remaining master plans are either under way or will commence in the near future according to a phased programme. Detailed design of the first phase of the disposal scheme is expected to start in 1992.
60. The Waste Disposal Plan, published in December 1989, detailed initiatives on the disposal of solid waste outlined in the White Paper, "Pollution in Hong Kong - A Time to Act". Three major strategic landfills in the New Territories, serviced by a network of refuse transfer stations, will be constructed to replace older urban landfills and incinerators. The first of these refuse transfer stations, at Kowloon Bay, was commissioned in April 1990 and a second station is under construction at Chai Wan. Consultancies on others, at Shatin and Hong Kong Island West, are progressing. strategic landfills is also well advanced.
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