WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4,
1991
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ΤΟ BE JUSTIFIED ON REACHES ABOUT AREA
LATEST POPULATION
"CONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTENSION IS LIKELY
THE TRANSPORT GROUNDS WHEN
POPULATION OF THE 270,000, WHICH WILL OCCUR IN 1999 ACCORDING TO THE PROJECTIONS, HE SAID.
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AS REGARDS THE PROVISION OF A REGIONAL HOSPITAL
RESERVED FOR BEEN SITE HAD
MR BARNES SAID A HOSPITAL IN AREA 32, TSEUNG KWAN O.
+
IN THE AREA, A 600-BED DISTRICT
POPULATION
ON
THE
DEPEND HOWEVER, WILL, "ACTUAL PROVISION GROWTH IN THE DISTRICT AND THEIR CHANGING NEEDS," HE EXPLAINED.
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MEANWHILE, PLANS ARE IN HAND TO REDEVELOP HOSPITAL INTO A 316-BED HOSPITAL PROVIDING REHABILITATION, TUBERCULOSIS, CHEST, HOSPICE THE PROJECT IS SCHEDULED TO START IN 1992/93.
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THE HAVEN OF HOPE
IN ACUTE, SERVICES
CONVALESCENT CARE.
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KWAI CHUNG POLLUTION NO CRISIS
A
THE LEVEL OF AIR POLLUTION IN KWAI CHUNG WILL CONTINUE TO BE
IS NOT, AND SHOULD MATTER OF CONCERN TO THE ADMINISTRATION, BUT IT
PROPORTIONS, THE SECRETARY NOT BE, REGARDED AS A PROBLEM OF CRISIS
TOLD BARNES,
THE AND LANDS, MR GRAHAM FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MR
IN
FOR GRAVE
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON LEE WING-TAT, IN KWAI CHUNG POLLUTANTS NOTED BARNES SAID THE INCREASE IN AIR OCTOBER WAS IN LINE WITH PAST EXPERIENCE, AND NOT A MATTER CONCERN.
(TSP) AND TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES MR BARNES SAID BOTH
AIR POLLUTION NITROGEN DIOXIDE (NO2), AS MEASURED AT THE KWAI CHUNG
HAD SHOWN HIGHER LEVELS MONITORING STATION IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE COOLER WINTER MONTHS THAN IN THE HOTTER SUMMER MONTHS.
THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE HIGHER CAPACITY OF SUMMER TO DISPERSE AIR POLLUTANTS.
IN
THE ATMOSPHERE IN
AT HE SAID.
"THIS IS A TERRITORY-WIDE PHENOMENON, AND THE PATTERN FOUND KWAI CHUNG IS ENTIRELY IN LINE WITH WHAT IS SEEN ELSEWHERE,
SQ FAR NO2 WOULD
MR BARNES SAID THAT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF MONITORING THIS YEAR, THERE WAS NO DANGER THAT THE ANNUAL AVERAGE FOR EXCEED THE RELEVANT AIR QUALITY OBJECTIVE (AQO).
THIS POLLUTANT NOT ARE
IN KWAI
A MATTER OF GRAVE
"WHILE WE CANNOT BE COMPLACENT ABOUT CHUNG, THE LEVELS OF NO2 IN KWAI CHUNG CONCERN, HE SAID.
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AQO FOR
TSP WOULD
MR BARNES SAID IT WAS LIKELY THAT THE EXCEEDED THIS YEAR IN KWAI CHUNG, BY PERHAPS AS MUCH AS 10 PER CENT.
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/HOWEVER HE
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