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Question: Mrs Chan, how do you look at the visit of Mr Robert Peirce to the States, is it a deliberate ....
CS: Mr Peirce's visit was in fact arranged some time ago. It's a pure coincidence that he happened to be in the States at the same time as Mr Lu Ping. I wouldn't read anything into it.
End/Saturday, March 25, 1995
Medical care for the elderly poses challenges to health administration
Managing medical care for the elderly will become an ever greater challenge for public health administration, and cardiological care will be a huge component within that, the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, said today (Saturday).
Officiating at the first congregation of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology, the Governor said heart disease was already one of the three major killer diseases, second only to malignant neoplasms.
Over 15 per cent of all deaths are from cardiovascular ailments. The disease strikes most commonly against the elderly. Eighty per cent of those who die are over 65.
Mr Patten said: "There is not just the threat to the individual, but the growing burden of cost to the whole community if our response to this swelling problem concentrates upon treatment, and neglects prevention.
"But since so much cardiovascular disease is the consequence of poor diet, inadequate exercise and unmanaged stress, there is a huge potential gain to the community if we can educate them in the dangers of heart disease, and if we can educate and encourage them to adopt the simple changes of habit that will help to guard against it," he added.
The Governor said he was encouraged by the amount of work the College had done in setting up registries, research projects, training programmes and its progress on public education programmes.
End/Saturday, March 25, 1995
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