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PR 33 4000038

香港政府

GIS 新聞處

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUPPLEMENT

Monday, July 9, 1973

STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES

The Director of Medical and Health Services, Dr. G.H. Choa, said

this evening:

"The action taken by the midwives, health auxiliaries and inoculators

as announced by them -- is to last 24 hours ending at midnight tonight.

"At this moment, the time is not yet up, and reports from government

maternity and port health offices are still coming in.

"From all information available so far, government maternity and

inoculation services have continued today with little evidence of disruption

Members of the public who did come for inoculation were attended

of routines,

to, and were not required to wait unduly for service.

It is possible that the weather might have played some part in

reducing the field activities of health auxiliaries.

"The Government has gone to great lengths to consider carefully all

the proposals which the nursing allied grades have made. Their proposals

have been examined from all angles. The overall average increase has been

30 per cent.

"In negotiations of this sort, clearly there must come a time when

further increases would be unfair to other grades. As I have said many times,

if there is any information to show that the private sector offers better

salaries and benefits than the Government, then such information will be

considered, and the door is still open for further negotiations."

Release time: 7.30 p.m.

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House. Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191