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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1985
*THE PROFESSIONS WHICH I WOULD LIKE THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO LOOK INTO ARE THE CHIROPRACTORS, THE ACUPUNCTURISTS, THE HERBALISTS AND THE BONE SETTERS IN THAT ORDER.
THEY WERE ALTERNATIVE OR SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS AND SHOULD BE DULY RECOGNISED RATHER THAN EXCLUDED FROM THE RELEVANT MEDICAL ORDINANCES.
THE PREVIOUS REACTION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WAS THAT, AS THERE HAD BEEN NO PROOF THAT THESE PROFESSIONS WERE DOING ANY DAMAGE, NOR THAT THESE DAMAGES WERE OF SIGNIFICANCE, THEY DECLINED TO ATTEMPT TO PUT SUCH PROFESSIONS UNDER LEGISLATIVE CONTROL.
+1 AM NOT AWARE THAT THE PRACTISING REFRACTIONISTS HAVE CREATED ANY DAMAGE NOR PROBLEM EITHER, DR IP SAID.
+YET THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS RIGHTLY TAKEN AN ACTIVE APPROACH. +
DR IP SAID SHE LOOKED FORWARD TO THE SAME ENTHUSIASM AND DYNAMISM IT HAD ADOPTED FOR THIS BILL, IN PUTTING OTHER ALLIED MEDICAL PROFESSIONS SUCH AS CHIROPRACTORS, ACUPUNCTURISTS AND HERBAL ISTS UNDER LEGISLATIVE CONTROL.
BETTER HEALTH CARE SEEN FROM OPTOMETRY MOVE *****
THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS, MIDWIVES REGISTRATION AND NURSES REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1985 WOULD CERTAINLY RAISE THE STANDARD OF HEALTH CARE AND WOULD PROVIDE GREATER PROTECTION TO THOSE WHO SOUGHT TREATMENT FROM MEMBERS OF THE PARAMEDICAL PROFESSIONS.
THIS WAS STATED BY DR THE HON HO KAM-FAI AT THE RESUMED DEBATE ON THE BILL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
HE SAID HE WAS HAPPY TO KNOW THAT THE SETS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS COVERED BY THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS ORDINANCE WERE ALREADY AT AN ADVANCE DRAFTING STAGE.
+THE BILL, WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS SEEKS TO EXPAND THE REGULATION-MAKING POWERS LAID DOWN UNDER THE ORDINANCE, WILL ENABLE THESE LONG-AWAITED REGULATIONS TO BE MADE WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, HE SAID.
/DR HO