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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1991

OFFICERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT HAVE VISITAD THESE THEIR WORKERS HAVE BEEN MEDICALLY EXAMINED.

FACTORIES AND

N LABOUR DEPARTMENT OFFICERS WHILE INVESTIGATION IS GOING

MEASURES, INCLUDING HAVE ADVISED THE FACTORIES TO STEP UP PREVENTIVE

WORKPLACE AND PROVISION OF IMPROVEMENT TO THE VENTILATION OF THE ADEQUATE PERSONAL PROFECTIVE EQUIPMENT TO THE WORKERS.

HAS CONFIRMED THAT VENTILATION HAS BEEN 'A RECENT INSPECTION IMPROVED IN THE TWO FACTORIES, THE SPOKESMAN SA1D.

OTHER

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"TO MINIMISE POSSIBLE HAZARDS, FACTORY PROPRIETORS SAFER SUBSTITUTES WHEREVER POSSIBLE," HE ADDED,

TO WEAR SUITABLE HE ALSO URGED WORKERS EQUIPMENT, SUCH AS LONG-SLEPVFD PVC GLOVES AND PRINTING ROLLERS WITH SOLVENTS.

SHOULD USE

PROTECTIVE CLEANSING

PERSONAL

MARKS WHEN

BY LAW, THEY

IN

WORK ENG

WITH

AS REQUIRED EMPLOY FPS ARE ALSO REMINDED THAT

WORKERS INSTRUCT SHOULD

SAFETY PRACTICES THEMICALS, " THE SPOKESMAN STRESSED.

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TWO MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED

SYNDROME)

TWO MORE CASES OF AIDS (ACQUERED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO 49.

FOR

ANNOUNCING THIR TODAY (TUESDAY), A SPOKESMAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID HOTH PATIENTS AND ANOTHER ONK WHO ALREADY KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INFECTED RARLIER DIED THIS MONTH.

THE

WERE

SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 36 AIDS PATIENTS DIED WR1LE 13 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT HONG KONG.

RELEASING THE MONTHLY STATISTICS ON AIDS PROGRAMME FOR APRIL, THE SPOKESMAN SAID ONE MORE MAN WAS POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING TO 173 THE OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAVE NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS,

OF THESP 55 WERE HARMOPHILIACS, 97

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ACQUIRED

SURVEILLANCE FOUND TO BE TOTAL NUMBER

THE INFECTION THE INFECTION

SEXUALLY, FOUR WERK DRUG ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION CIN THE OTHER 14 WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 192,442 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS TRANSFUSION SERVICE HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS POR AIDS.

UP TO LAST MONTH, 884,389 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 16 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

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