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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1988

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"IT WILL RESULT IN THE UNHCR TAKING

FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CAMPS. IT WILL ENABLE REFUGEES TO ACQUIRE EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK SKILLS WHICH WILL MAKE THEM MORE ACCEPTABLE TO RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES.

"JOB PLACEMENT LOCALLY WILL BE CARRIED OUT WITH CARE BY THE UNHCR. THERE WILL BE NO SUDDEN FLOODING OF THE LABOUR MARKET, OR THE STREETS, BY PEOPLE WHO WERE FORMERLY IN CLOSED CAMPS."

THE NEW CENTRES, ONCE THEY WERE OPENED, WOULD BE PROPERLY MANAGED. SIR DAVID ADDED THAT THEIR EXISTENCE WOULD NOT AFFECT THE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO LOCAL PEOPLE. "WHERE EXTRA POLICING IS REQUIRED, THIS WILL BE PROVIDED.

HOSPITAL AUTHORITY WILL ENSURE RESOURCES ARE USED EFFICIENTLY

THE GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT TO MAINTAINING PUBLIC HEALTH WILL NOT IN ANY WAY BE REDUCED WITH THE SETTING UP OF THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

"OUR AIM IS SIMPLY TO ENSURE THAT THE VERY SUBSTANTIAL RESOURCES ALLOCATED TO THE MEDICAL PROGRAMME ARE USED IN THE MOST EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE MANNER, HE SAID.

CONCERNING THE WORKING CONDITIONS AND TERMS OF SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT DOCTORS, SIR DAVID SAID A PACKAGE OF IMPROVEMENT MEASURES WAS NOW BEING CONSIDERED.

URGENT ADVICE FROM THE PROVISIONAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY HAD BEEN SOUGHT, AND HE HOPED FIRM PROPOSALS WOULD BE MADE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

THE GOVERNOR SAID THE REASON FOR SETTING UP A HOSPITAL AUTHORITY WAS THAT THE ENORMOUS EXPANSION OF MEDICAL SERVICES IN RECENT YEARS HAD MADE IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT то MANAGE THEIR DELIVERY THROUGH THE NORMAL GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE.

A PROVISIONAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, CHAIRED BY SIR SZE-YUEN CHUNG, HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED EARLIER THIS MONTH TO DEVELOP PROPOSALS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF GOVERNMENT AND SUBVENTED HOSPITALS UNDER A NEW MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE.

"THE NEW

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