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Question: Will Mr Major bring along any presents to the community with the message that the Cabinet will grant visa-free to SAR passports as taking the lead?
Governor: I said in reply to an earlier question that I'm sure he'll want to hear the views of the community on that issue. You know what my views are, I've told him what my views are. I very much hope that the British Government takes my views, those of legislators, those of businessmen, and those of the whole community very seriously.
Question: Mr Governor, returning to the Pat Sin Leng fire disaster. The whole community is closely concerned about the progress of the treatment to those injured students. But, today there has been reporting concerning the misco-ordination between the two teaching hospitals. The Queen Mary Hospital has a huge reserve of skin-bank, but at the same time, the Prince of Wales Hospital is urging the public to donate skin to those students and the students are suffering unnecessary pain and suffering with the transplanting of their own skin to cover those wounds. How would the Government monitor about that?
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Governor: Well, neither you nor I are medical experts. And I would be reluctant to be as explicit as you've just been about the treatment which patients are receiving. Clearly all of us want to ensure that the patients get the best possible treatment over the coming days and weeks and months. And I can assure you that the Hospital Authority and the Secretary for Health and Welfare and the Director of Health will be doing all that they can to ensure that the resources available to the health service in Hong Kong are focused on ensuring that those young people get the support which the community expects them to receive, and which their families deserve. I would just add one other thing. Clearly there are issues of legitimate public interest in what happened last weekend. My own greatest concern is that the families of those who suffered and those who suffered and are now in hospital should not be caused unnecessary worry and anguish by the pressure which is put on some of them, by those who want to find out more about what's been going on. I'll be restrained at that point and won't go any further. But I do hope that everybody will remember that all our principal concern should be with the recovery of the patients and the well-being, mental and physical as well as financial, of their families.
Question: Can Government reassure those sad families of the injured that there will be proper management about the medical treatment given to the students and there won't be any mismanagement?
Governor: Of course.