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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1990
GOVT REBUTTED CLAIMS OF UNAFFECTED EVENING CLINIC SERVICE
THE DEPARTMENT
HONG
KONG DID NOT
A SPOKESMAN FOR
OF HEALTH TODAY (THURSDAY)
A DESCRIBED
NEWSPAPER REPORT WHICH QUOTED THE PHARMACEUTICAL STAFF ASSOCIATION AS SAYING THAT THEIR ACTION AFFECT THE EVENING CLINIC SERVICE AS TOTALLY MISLEADING.
REDUCTION
THE
HE SAID THAT THE PUBLIC IS BEING INCONVENIENCED BY A
CLINIC SERVICE DUE ΤΟ EVENING
SUDDEN THE
DECISION OF ASSOCIATION TO WITHDRAW FROM VOLUNTARY OVERTIME WORK.
OF
OF
HE POINTED OUT THAT OF THE 454 DISPENSERS IN THE DEPARTMENT
PER CENT OF HEALTH AND THE HOSPITAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, 248 OR 55 THEM ARE
IN THIS PARTICIPATING
GENERAL INDICATING POPULARITY OF THE SCHEME.
SERVICE,
A
WERE ON THE REPORTED CLAIM BY THE ASSOCIATION THAT DISPENSERS
THE SPOKESMAN TOO TIRED TO DO OVERTIME WORK AFTER A FULL DAY'S WORK,
AVERAGE ONE HAS SAID: "BASED ON THE CURRENT OVERTIME ROSTER, ON THE TO WORK ONLY TWO EVENINGS PER MONTH.
"BESIDES, THE OVERTIME WORK IS ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY. FEELS HE CANNOT COPE, CAN CHOOSE TO OPT OUT OF THE SCHEME.
AND
INDEED, SINCE THE PRESENT OVERTIME ARRANGEMENT
HAD IN 1984,
BEEN IT
WORKING EXTREMELY WELL COMPLAINT HAD BEEN RECEIVED TO DATE.
ANYONE WHO
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WAS INTRODUCED
NOT
A SINGLE
THE DEPARTMENT HAD
EXPECTED COMMUNITY. COMPLETELY
GIVEN SUCH WORKING RELATIONSHIP, THAT THE ARRANGEMENT WOULD CONTINUE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WORK OVERTIME THUS THE NOTIFICATION OF AUGUST 6 TO CEASE
SUCH SHORT NOTICE HAD IN TWO DAYS TOOK THE DEPARTMENT BY SURPRISE. LEFT THE DEPARTMENT WITH NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO DEAL WITH THE EMERGENCY BY REDUCING THE SERVICE.
THE MEANWHILE,
DEPARTMENT IS ACTIVELY WORKING ON SPECIAL
ARRANGEMENTS TO RESTORE A REASONABLE LEVEL OF SERVICE.
THE SPOKESMAN EXPRESSED HIS PUBLIC FOR THEIR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.
APPRECIATION то
MEMBERS OF THE
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