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GOVT HAS TAKEN PROBLEMS ON BOARD SQUARELY

INDUSTRIAL

ACTION WAS

GOVERNMENT MEDICAL AND PARAMEDICAL STAFF OUGHT TO HAVE NO FEAR THAT THEIR PLIGHT WOULD BE FORGOTTEN IF THEIR CALLED OFF, DR THE HON HENRIETTA IP SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

"I DO BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT HAS

IS SINCERE IN TACKLING SQUARELY AND ADJOURNMENT DEBATE ON MEDICAL AND HEALTH HOSPITALS.

BE SHE SAID SHE WOULD PARAMEDICAL STAFF ALSO SITUATION WOULD TAKE TIME.

ΤΟ

BE

PATIENT, PATIENT

TAKEN THE PROBLEMS ON BOARD

DR THEM,"

IP SAID IN THE SERVICES IN PUBLIC SECTOR

AND URGED THE MEDICAL AND AS

TO EFFORTS

THE IMPROVE

SAD

THAT

HOWEVER, DR IP SAID SHE WAS

IT REQUIRED A STRIKE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ADMIT TO AND REMEDY THE PROBLEMS.

ΤΟ

IN RETROSPECT, IT SEEMED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD LISTENED

GOOD MEDICAL THE WRONG ADVISERS, HAD PLAYED DOWN THE IMPORTANCE OF A

RELATION ΤΟ OTHER AND HEALTH SERVICE IN

OR SERVICES,

HAD LACKED ADEQUATE MEDICAL AND HEALTH LEADERSHIP.

MEDICAL

THE DR IP ADVISED THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST SPLITTING UP AND HEALTH SERVICES INTO TWO DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. SHE SAID THE TWO WERE INSEPARABLE.

THE IF THE SPLIT WAS INEVITABLE, SHE SAID,

GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT DOWNGRADE THE POSTS OF THE DIRECTOR OF HOSPITAL SERVICES DIRECTOR OF HEALTH.

AND THE

ΤΟ SERVICES

MEET SHE ADDED THAT IMPROVING MEDICAL AND HEALTH

STANDARD) UNDER THE THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE AND TO ACHIEVE A MODERN

WITHOUT DEVELOPING A SYSTEM FRAMEWORK OF THE EXISTING LOW FEES

OF MEDICAL INSURANCE WOULD, IN 10 YEARS, STRAIN THE LOCAL ECONOMY.

SUPPORT FOR DOCTORS AND NURSES

GOVERNMENT DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE NOT IRRESPONSIBLE IN TAKING INDUSTRIAL ACTION IN THE WAY THEY DO.

BEARING IN MIND THE VERY REASONABLE DEMANDS

ARE THEY

LIMITED SCOPE OF THEIR ACTION AND

THE

MAKING, THE HON MARTIN LEE TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HE WAS SPEAKING IN THE ADJOURNMENT HEALTH SERVICES IN PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITALS.

DEBATE ON MEDICAL AND

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