13
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1991
THEY
"CATEGORY 111 BUILDINGS DO NOT POSE A PROBLEM AT PRESENT.
AND UNLIKELY TO REASONABLE CONDITION BE IN A ARE CONSIDERED TO REQUIRE ANY MAJOR ACTION WITHIN FIVE YEARS.
OLDER "ALMOST ALL THESE BUILDINGS ARE GENERALLY LOCATED IN THE
SHUI PO, PARTS OF THE URBAN AREA, SUCH AS TO KWA WAN, MONG KOK, SHAM KOWLOON CITY, SHEUNG WAN, SAI YUNG PUN AND WAN CHAI."
DEAL
WITH
MR LEWIS SAID THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE
EMERGENCIES ΤΟ SYSTEM STAND-BY THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
OFFICE HAD A 24 HOUR
JN
BUILDINGS PRIVATE
TO RESIDENTS OR THE "THE SYSTEM IS AIMED AT REMOVING DANGER
CORRECTIVE TREATMENT OR BY GENERAL PUBLIC EITHER BY URGENT ON-SITE
PERMANENT EVACUATING THE RESIDENTS OF THE BUILDINGS ON A TEMPORARY OR BASIS, HE ADDED.
"
VM'S NOT AFFECTING PUBLIC IN HOSPITAL USES
AFFECTED
IN GENERAL ΤΟ THE LOCAL NOTWITHSTANDING THE USE OF
THE PROVISION OF HOSPITAL SERVICES PUBLIC HAS NOT BEEN SERIOUSLY SOME OF THE FACILITIES BY VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS.
AND WELFARE, THE BY THE HON LEONG
THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH
A QUESTION HON ELIZABETH WONG, WHEN REPLYING TO CUR-HUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
FLEXIBLE
MRS WONG SAID THE DEMAND FOR SERVICES HAD BEEN MET BY
RE-DISTRIBUTION OF CASELOADS WITHIN RE-DEPLOYMENT OP RESOURCES AND THE TERRITORY'S HOSPITAL SYSTEM,
THE SECRETARY NOTED THAT VIETNAMESE BED-DAYS, OR 5.8 PER CENT OF THE AVAILABLE BED-DAYS IN THE
IN HOSPITAL WALES HOSPITAL AND REGION LAST YEAR.
FANLING
MIGRANTS OCCUPIED 30,925 PRINCE OF
THE NEW TERRITORIES
EAST
THEY
ATTENDANCES
ALSO AT THE
ACCOUNTED
ACCIDENT
PER 3.8 FOR
AND EMERGENCY
CENT
OF THE
IN DEPARTMENTS
TOTAL THESE
HOSPITALS.
++
ONLY HOSPITAL IN
THE
NEW
PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL WAS THE TERRITORIES EAST REGION WHICH PROVIDED AN OBSTETRIC SERVICE.
THERE.
"IN 1990, 1,720 VBP (VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE) BABIES
WERE BORN
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AVAILABLE BED-DAYS MRS WONG SAID.
"THIS REPRESENTS SOME 20.8 PER CENT OF DELIVERIES IN THE HOSPITAL, OR 14 PER CENT OF THE IN ITS OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY DEPARTMENT,
MIGRANTS
THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL HOWEVER, MRS WONG POINTED OUT THAT
GENERATED HAD UNQUESTIONABLY TO SERVICES
VIETNAMESE ADDITIONAL PRESSURE ON THE AVAILABLE MEDICAL AND NURSING MANPOWER.
/SHE COMMENDED