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The Student Health Service will be extended to secondary day school students in September 1996. Upon full implementation, a total of 12 centres and two special assessment centres will be established to provide services for some 900,000 primary and secondary school students.
The introduction of the service to replace the School Medical Service is one of the recommendations of the Working Party on Primary Health Care in 1990 following a review of the prevailing provision of health and medical services for school children.
End/Thursday, September 7, 1995
Ferry piers in Central relocated
Passenger ferry facilities in Central will be improved with the completion of another new ferry pier later this month, members of the Traffic and Transport Committee of the Central and Western District Board were told.
At a meeting of the Committee today (Thursday), Chief Engineer (Hong Kong Island Division) of the Territory Development Department, Mr Peter So, said the Tuen Mun ferry and hoverferry service and the Tai O ferry service would be relocated to the new pier No. 5 upon its completion in late September.
"After that, we will then be able to relocate in early October the Lamma ferry service from its current temporary pier near Rumsey Street permanently to the eastern berth of pier No. 6," he said.
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Pier No. 5 is one of the six new permanent piers being developed under the Central Reclamation Phase I project, part of the Airport Core Programme (ACP).
The project comprises the reclamation of 20 hectares of land between the Macau Ferry Terminal and the General Post Office Building for the expansion of the Central business area as well as the construction of the Airport Railway's Hong Kong Station.
It also includes reprovisioning of ferry piers along the Central waterfront to ensure continuation of ferry services throughout the reclamation works.
Mr So said more facilities for the new piers were completed and opened to the public last month.