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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1985
ON EDUCATION AND PROTECTION FOR STAFF, DR THONG SAID APART FROM THEIR TRAINING, SPECIAL LECTURES WERE ORGANISED AND GUIDELINES ON PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES WERE ISSUED IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN DISEASES OF SPECIAL INTEREST SUCH AS HEPATITIS B AND THE RECENT ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.
IN ADDITION, THERE ARE POLICIES AND GUIDELINES FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CROSS INFECTION.
+THESE ARE USEFUL FOR THE HOSPITAL STAFF IN THE COURSE OF THE IR DUTIES TO FOLLOW SO AS TO KEEP CROSS INFECTION TO A MINIMUM.
+THESE INCLUDE PROCEDURES FOR ISOLATION OF PATIENTS, BARRIER NURSING, DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, PROPER CARE OF EQUIPMENT, SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND SPECIAL INFECTION CONTROL MEASURES IN AREAS SUCH AS THE INTENSIVE CARE UNITS AND RENAL DIALYSIS UNITS.
+STERILISED DRESSINGS AND EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN THE WARDS ARE MADE AVAILABLE FROM THE CENTRAL STERILISED SUPPLY DEPARTMENT SO AS TO ELIMINATE THE RISK OF CROSS INFECTION, DR THONG SAID.
NEW CONTROL POINT FACILITIES WILL BE MANNED
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NEW FACILITIES AT THE MAN KAM TO CONTROL POINT WILL HAVE TO DE MANNED SOMEHOW, PERHAPS BY THE REDEPLOYMENT OF POSTS FROM OTHER HEADS OF EXPENDITURE, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON DAVIDA JE AFFRESON, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON YEUNG PO-KWAN, MR JEAFFRESON POINTED OUT THAT SINCE THERE WERE NO PROVISIONS FOR ADDITIONAL POSTS FOR THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT IN THE 1985-86 ESTIMATES, ONE WAY OF DEALING WITH THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF TRAVELLERS PASSING THROUGH MAN KAM TO WAS BY REDEPLOYMENT OF EXISTING STAFF.
+BUT THERE ARE LIMITS TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH STAFF CAN BE REDEPLOYED IN ANY PARTICULAR DIRECTION, HE SAID.
+THESE LIMITS, DICTATED BY THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEPLETING STAFF AT OTHER CONTROL POINTS, MAY WELL NOW HAVE BEEN REACHED,
/+OVER THE
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