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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1990

552 VRS LEFT HK FOR OVERSEAS RESETTLEMENT

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REFUGEES

HONG LEFT

KONG

FOR

A TOTAL OF 552 VIETNAMESE RESETTLEMENT OVERSEAS LAST MONTH (OCTOBER).

11 DEPARTED FOR FINLAND, 77 FOR

OF THOSE WHO LEFT FOR OVERSEAS RESETTLEMENT, AUSTRIA, 125 FOR AUSTRALIA, 151 FOR CANADA, ONE FOR FRANCE, THREE FOR GERMANY, 42 FOR JAPAN, 12 FOR NORWAY, 31 FOR SWEDEN, 57 FOR UNITED KINGDOM AND 42 FOR USA.

0

EYE-CARE CAMPAIGN IN SHAM SHUI PO

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AN EYE-CARE CAMPAIGN ORGANISED BY THE GROUP OF HOSPITALS BOARD AND THE TUNG WAH FRIDAY (NOVEMBER 9).

SHAM WILL

SHUI PO DISTRICT BE LAUNCHED NEXT

ANNOUNCING

DETAILS

AT

A PRESS

CONFERENCE,

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, MR LEUNG KAM-TAO, SAID IT WAS AIMED COMMUNITY RESPECT AND CONCERN FOR THE ELDERLY.

ITS ORGANISING AT PROMOTING

INTO

MAJOR

PARTS:

"THE CAMPAIGN, WHICH WILL RUN EYE TESTS TWO

DECEMBER UNTIL

IS 5,

AND

PROGRAMMES EDUCATIONAL

DIVIDED ON

EYE-CARE, MR LEUNG SAID.

THERE WILL ALSO BE A

TALK

EYE-CARE GENERAL ON

AND RELATED

EXHIBITIONS.

OPTOMETRIC

3,000

ASSOCIATION,

RESIDENTS

WHO

"WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE HONG KONG THE ORGANISERS WILL BE PROVIDING FREE TESTS FOR ARE 60 YEARS OLD OR ABOVE.

FREE SPECTACLES TO "IF NECESSARY, THEY WILL BE PROVIDED WITH

THEY IMPROVE THEIR EYE-SIGHT. IF THEY ARE FOUND TO HAVE EYE DISEASES, WILL BE REFERRED TO THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT,

WILL

BE CARRIED

HE ADDED.

MEI

THE

KIP SHEK NAM CHEONG COMMUNITY HALL

OUT AT EYE-TESTS THE COMMUNITY HALL, CHEUNG SHA WAN COMMUNITY CENTRE, CENTRE, TAI HANG TUNG COMMUNITY CENTRE AND THE LAI KOK COMMUNITY IN THE DISTRICT.

SAID THE LEUNG AS TO COMMUNITY

TO EXPLAIN THE COMMITTEE HAD PUBLISHED 15,000 PAMPHLETS COMMON EYE DISEASES AND THEIR PREVENTIVE MEASURES.

EDUCATION,

MR

ORGANISING CAUSES

OF

ALSO SPEAKING AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE, DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR TAI TUNG-NGOK, SAID ABOUT 16 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL SHAM SHUI PO WERE ELDERLY PEOPLE.

POPULATION

IN

/THIS NUMBER