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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1991

MRS ON THE CONSULTATION EXERCISE OF THE PRIMARY HEALTH REPORT, WONG POINTED

DOCUMENTS HAD BEEN OUT THAT SOME 40,000 CONSULTATIVE

AND DISTRIBUTED, INCLUDING A SYNOPSIS ON DENTAL SERVICES, TELEVISION RADIO API'S HAD INVITED COMMENTS.

HAVE

"BY THE MIDDLE OF THIS MONTH, ALL DISTRICT BOARDS WOULD, BEEN CONSULTED, WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS APART, WE HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS AND PRINTED AND COMMENTS VIA MANY CHANNELS INCLUDING COMMENTS FROM THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA.

"SO WE HAVE HAD COMMENTS FROM ACROSS-THE-BOARD AND WE HAVE A CROSS SECTION OF VIEWS EXPRESSED TO US.

HAD

MEMBERS

HAD

MRS WONG

SOME SAID IT CAME AS A SURPRISE THAT ACTUALLY ASKED FOR THE CONSULTATION PERIOD TO BE EXTENDED.

FOR

OUR

YEARS. "FOR HONG KONG HAS BEEN LAGGING BEHIND FOR MANY ONCE WE ARE POISED TO GO FORWARD, AND YET WE ARE ASKED TO DRAG

FOR PRACTICABLE FEET. WE HAVE WAITED LONG, PERHAPS A BIT TOO LONG, PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE OUR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND SERVICES.

MRS WONG SAID WHILST SHE HAD AN OPEN MIND OVER THE APPROPRIATE CONSULTATION PERIOD, HOWEVER, SHE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE UNFORTUNATE

LETHARGY SUBSTITUTE

FOR STRATEGY, OR TO CONSULTATION FOR THOROUGH DELIBERATION.

FOR

"NOW IS TIME

NOT ACTION. HURRIEDLY, BUT STEADILY, STEP-BY-STEP,"

MISTAKE

PROTRACTED

FUSSING, NOT RUSHING, SHE SAID.

NOT

PARTICIPATORY

MRS WONG CLARIFIED THAT PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WAS A SYSTEM WHICH REQUIRED THE INVOLVEMENT OF EVERYBODY, NOT JUST WALKS OP GOVERNMENT BUT THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, PEOPLE FROM ALL

HEALTH EDUCATORS, POLITICIANS, THE

WORKERS. SOCIAL PROFESSIONALS, FAMILIES AND ABOVE ALL EACH AND EVERYONE OF US.

CARE, THE

LIFE,

TOP DOWN. "IT IS NOT SIMPLY FREE SERVICES DELIVERED FROM THE

DISEASE PREVENTION PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, WITH ITS STRONG EMPHASIS ON AND HEALTH PROMOTION, IS INSEPARABLE FROM SELF-CARE, GOOD AND LIFE STYLE, FAMILY SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION," SHE SAID.

HEALTHY

CONGRATULATORY

THE WORLD

THAT

HEALTH

MRS WONG TOLD MEMBERS THAT THEY MIGHT BE PLEASED TO NOTE SINCE THE

REPORT, PUBLICATION OF THE PRIMARY HEALTH MESSAGES

COME IN FROM A LOT OF PLACES, ORGANISATION AND OVERSEAS EXPERTS.

HAD

FROM

VISION AND ITS

MRS WONG SAID.

"HONG KONG HAS IN FACT BEEN PRAISED FOR ITS COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE,

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