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TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1989

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MR SO SAID THE GOVERNMENT

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HAD

PROMOTE ROAD SAFETY THROUGH PUBLICITY

ΤΟ

MAIN

DONE MUCH IN PAST YEARS AND

BUT EDUCATION.

THE WAS THE VERY EFFORT HAD TO COME FROM THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, AND IT USEFUL WORK DONE BY COMMUNITY GROUPS SUCH AS THE ROAD SAFETY THAT HELPED TO INSTIL IN ROAD USERS A SENSE OF PROPER BEHAVIOUR.

PATROLS

THE

THE WORK OF THE COMMISSIONER SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO SEE ROAD SAFETY PATROLS BEING RECOGNISED WITH THE AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIPS ΤΟ SO MANY MEMBERS OF THE PATROL TEAMS FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN PATROL SERVICE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS.

ΤΟ GIVEN

THE HE PRAISED THE STRONG SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT ROAD SAFETY PATROLS BY PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS SUCH AS THE ROAD SAFETY OTHER ASSOCIATION, THE SCHOOLS, THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE, AND ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS.

I AM SURE WE CAN CONTINUE TO RELY ON THEIR SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO HELP US PROMOTE ROAD SAFETY AND TO REDUCE THE SOCIAL COSTS AND SUFFERING CAUSED BY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS," MR SO SAID.

TWO MORE

SUFFERING FROM

TWO AIDS CASES CONFIRMED

PEOPLE

HONG IN AIDS (ACQUIRED

KONG HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME},

TO

BE

THE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY).

THE PATIENTS ARE BOTH MALE. ONE ACQUIRED THE DISEASE SEXUALLY BLOOD WHILE THE OTHER CONTRACTED THE DISEASE THROUGH TRANSFUSION OF A PRODUCT.

THIS BRINGS TO 22 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES

HAVE THIRTEEN OF THE PATIENTS THE TERRITORY. NINE ARE UNDER TREATMENT AND COUNSELLING.

IN REPORTED DIED, AND THE OTHER

RELEASING THE

MONTHLY SURVEILLANCE STATISTICS ON SAID ANOTHER AIDS CARRIER APRIL, A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN REPORTED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER TO 143.

AIDS FOR WAS ALSO

OF THESE,

WERE 42

REFERRALS FROM GOVERNMENT

HOSPITALS

AND

CLINICS, 15 WERE PEOPLE WHO HAD ATTENDED SOCIAL HYGIENE CLINICS, 54

REFERRALS FROM WERE HAEMOPHILIACS AND 32 WERE

PRIVATE DOCTORS AND

SUBVENTED HOSPITALS.

THE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME BEGUN BY

HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 126,240 PEOPLE VIRUS.

AIDS

BLOOD MEANWHILE, THE HONG KONG RED CROSS HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

TRANSFUSION SERVICE

UP TO APRIL, 551,045 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

AND EIGHT

/AIDS VIRUS