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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1980
THE ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY HAS BEEN PROMOTING RESEARCH ON THE CAUSES OF COMMON CANCERS IN HONG KONG.
AT THE SAME TIME, THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO BEEN WORKING ALONG THE SAME DIRECTION, BY ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT TO DISSEMINATE HEALTH INFORMATION ON CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES TO THE PUBLIC.
AN ANTI-CANCER EXHIBITION JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE EDUCATION UNIT, THE ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY AND THE STOMA SOCIETY WAS HELD IN AUGUST AT THE CITY HALL AND IN NOVEMBER AT TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL WHICH WERE WELL ATTENDED, SAID DR THONG.
ANOTHER EXHIBITION ENTITLED +SMOKING OR HEALTH, THE CHOICE IS YOURS+, CO-ORGANISED BY THE UNIT, THE ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY AND THE CARDIOLOGICAL SOCIETY WAS HELD IN THE OCEAN TERMINAL IN APRIL.
APART FROM THE PREVENTIVE MEASURES, DR THONG SAID, THE RADIATION BOARD WHICH IS A STATUTORY BODY HAS BEEN ACTING AS
A WATCH-DOG TO ENSURE THE SAFE AND PROPER USE OF IONISING RADIATION IN THE MEDICAL AND INDUSTRIAL FIELDS.
AS REGARDS TREATMENT, HE SAID, A NEW LINEAR ACCELERATOR WILL BE INSTALLED AT THE QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL BY EARLY NEXT YEAR TO IMPROVE THE FACILITIES THERE.
FACILITIES INCLUDING A NEW RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY CENTRE FOR CANCER TREATMENT WILL ALSO BE PROVIDED IN 1982 AT THE NEW TEACHING HOSPITAL IN SHA TIN.
+THE ACCEPTED AND MOST EFFECTIVE APPROACH IN DEALING WITH THIS DIFFICULT PROBLEM FROM OUR EXPERIENCE APPEARS TO CONSIST OF AN ATTACK IN THREE DIRECTIONS, NAMELY, PROVISION AND IMPROVEMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT FACILITIES AND PREVENTION, HE SAID.
SIR MURRAY INSPECTS PRISONS WORK
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, THIS AFTERNOON HAD A CLOSE LOOK AT THE WORK OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PENAL INSTITUTIONS ADMINISTERED BY THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT, ON A TOUR OF STANLEY PRISON, HEI LING CHAU DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE, NEJ KWU CHAU DETENTION CENTRE AND SHA TSUI DETENTION CENTRE.
HE WAS ACCOMPANIED ON THE TOUR BY THE COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS, MR THOMAS GARNER.
SIR MURRAY FIRST VISITED STANLEY PRISON --A MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON WITH A COMPREHENSIVE INDUSTRIAL SECTION. HE INSPECTED THE PRISON HOSPITAL, CHAPEL, ACCOMMODATION FOR PRISONERS, AS WELL AS THE VARIOUS WORKSHOPS, AND WATCHED PRISONERS AT WORK.
HE THEN WENT BY HELICOPTER TO HEI LING CHAU TO SEE THE DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE. ON ARRIVAL THERE HE WAS BRIEFED ON THE EXPANSION PROGRAMME AND LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISLAND.
/AFTORMARLE JIT