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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1992
EMERGENCY CASES HANDLED BY PUBLIC HOSPITALS
THE NUMBER OF TRAUMATIC ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY (A&E) CASES
BY HANDLED
PUBLIC HOSPITALS BETWEEN 1989 AND LAST YEAR TOTALLED 723,530, RESULTING IN 97,014 PATIENTS BEING ADMITTED TO HOSPITALS, THE
FOR SECRETARY
HEALTH AND WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH
SAID WONG,
TODAY
(WEDNESDAY).
OF THE TOTAL A&E FIGURES, 310,823 CASES WERE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS, 231,795 WERE DOMESTIC ACCIDENTS, 68,803 WERE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND 112,109 OTHERS.
MRS IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LAU CHIN-SHEK, WONG SAID THE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS INVOLVED MAINLY HAND, LEG AND FOOT, AND AND SKULL INJURIES. OTHERS RELATED TO FACE AND NECK, ARM, TRUNK, EYE INJURIES.
MRS WONG ALSO NOTED THAT THE NUMBER OF WORK-RELATED ACCIDENTS
то REPORTED
THE EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION DIVISION
THE OF DEPARTMENT SHOWED A GRADUAL DECREASE IN THE PAST THREE YEARS 97,450 IN 1989, 94,938 IN 1990 TO 87,827 LAST YEAR.
LABOUR
-
FROM
0
-
DRAINS INSPECTED REGULARLY TO PREVENT FLOODING
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PREVENTIVE CULVERTS,
THE DRAINAGE SERVICES DEPARTMENT OPERATES A MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME TO INSPECT MAJOR STORMWATER DRAINS, NULLAHS AND BLOCKAGE BLACKSPOTS REGULARLY, THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR A.G. EASON, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO THE HON LEE WING-TAT, MR EASON SAID ANY SILTING AND BLOCKAGE INSIDE THE DRAINS WAS CLEARED AND DEFECTS AND DAMAGE WERE REPAIRED BEFORE THE RAINY SEASON TO MINIMISE FLOODING.
LAST YEAR THE DEPARTMENT INSPECTED 300 KILOMETRES OF STORMWATER DRAINS, CULVERTS AND NULLAHS, 90 KILOMETRES OF WHICH WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CLEARED WITH 75,000 CUBIC METRES OF SILT BEING REMOVED.
ON CONSTRUCTION SITES THAT INVOLVED SIGNIFICANT EARTHWORKS, HE WHERE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WERE IN CHARGE OF SITES, THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE TO ENSURE ADEQUATE MEASURES WERE TAKEN TO PREVENT EROSION.
SAID
ALSO,
THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSTRUCTING TEMPORARY DRAINAGE SYSTEMS TO INTERCEPT SURFACE RUNOFF AND PROVIDING SAND TRAPS AND VEHICLE WASHING FACILITIES TO PREVENT SILT AND DEBRIS FROM FLOWING INTO THE PUBLIC DRAINAGE SYSTEM.
/"SUCH PREVENTIVE