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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1988

HOWEVER, HE NOTED THAT' UNDER SECTION 28(3) OF THE SAME ORDINANCE, SECTION 28(2) SHOULD NOT APPLY TO TREATMENT:

(A)

BY WAY OF DENTISTRY PERFORMED BY A REGISTERED DENTIST;

(B)

BY WAY OF THE DISPENSATION OF MEDICINE REGISTERED PHARMACIST;

OR POISON BY A

(C)

DISPENSATION

BY WAY OF THE

BY A SELLER POISONS LISTED UNDER THE PHARMACY AND POISONS ORDINANCE;

OF POISON

OF

(D)

IN THE COURSE OF PRACTICE OF ONE OF THE PROFESSIONS LISTED IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS ORDINANCE GIVEN BY A REGISTERED OR LICENSED PERSON;

(E)

BY WAY OF MASSAGE GIVEN IN A MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A PERSON LICENSED TO OPERATE THE MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT;

BY OR

(F)

BY WAY OF CHIROPODY, CHIROPRACTIC OR OSTEOPATHY; AND

(G) BY WAY OF FIRST AID.

"SECTION 31 OF THE MEDICAL REGISTRATION ORDINANCE PERMITS A PERSON OF CHINESE RACE TO PRACTISE MEDICINE OR SURGERY ACCORDING TO TO DIAGNOSE PURELY CHINESE METHODS; BUT SUCH A PERSON IS NOT ALLOWED OR TREAT DISEASES OF THE EYE IF HE IS NOT A REGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER, MR CHAU ADDED.

P+

THE

EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS AT PRESENT NO LEGISLATIVE CONTROL ON

USE IMPORT, POSSESSION OR

OF DEVICES INVOLVING LASER, ULTRASONIC WAVES, SHORTWAVES, MICROWAVES, MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION, THE PUBLIC WAS GENERALLY AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PATIENTS BY UNQUALIFIED PERSONS WAS UNLAWFUL.

THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT AWARE OF ANY WIDESPREAD ABUSE OF SUCH MR CHAU DEVICES FOR THE UNLAWFUL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PATIENTS, SAID.

APPLICATION OF THE THERE SEEMED TO BE NO NEED TO LICENSE THE DEVICES OR METHODS IN QUESTION, BUT THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT WOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION.

MR CHAU ADDED THAT AS NO SPECIFIC COMPLAINTS HAD BEEN RECEIVED, THERE HAD NOT BEEN ANY PROSECUTIONS OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN SUCH UNLAWFUL DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT.

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