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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1991

MRS WONG ADDED THAT THE HOSPITAL

ROUND-THE-CLOCK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES JANUARY NEXT YEAR. AT THE SAME TIME, 100 BROUGHT INTO SERVICE.

WOULD OPERATE ITS ACCIDENT TIME, FROM TWO MONTHS' ADDITIONAL BEDS

IN

WOULD BE

HOSPITAL ACCORDING TO PRESENT SCHEDULE, THE SECRETARY SAID THE

THEY WOULD BE IN FULL OPERATION BY MID-1993 WITH OVER 3,000 STAFF.

NURSES, VARIOUS SPECIALTIES, IN DIFFERENT WOULD INCLUDE DOCTORS SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, AND OTHER SUPPORTING STAFF.

"THIS REPRESENTS A DEFERMENT

OF ABOUT SIX

MONTIIS FROM THE COUNCIL IN

EARLIER TARGET DATE OF END-1992, WHICH I REPORTED TO THIS JULY LAST YEAR, THE SECRETARY SAID.

3,100 It'S FROM CHINA IN HK PRISONS

PRISON SERVING MR ALISTAIR ASPREY,

ABOUT 3,100 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA ARE TERMS IN HONG KONG, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR ASPREY SAID IMMIGRATION-RELATED

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON ELSIE TU, SOME

THESE 2,600 OF

HAD BEEN

OF CONVICTED OFFENCES AND THE REST CONVICTED OF OTHER CRIMINAL OFFENCES.

HE ADDED THAT ABOUT 2,500 WERE FIRST OFFENDERS; 489 CLAIMED BR BETWEEN 14 AND 21 YEARS OLD.

TO

271 BETWEEN 16

"OF THESE 489, 25 ARE AGED BETWEEN 14 AND 15, AND 18, AND 193 BETWEEN 19 AND 21," HE SAID.

MR ASPREY SAID THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT SEND ANYONE UNDER

14 TO

PRISON.

"IF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UNDER 14 ARE KEPT IN BOYS' OR GIRLS' HOMES.

THEY CONVICTED,

WILL

BE

"AT PRESENT, THERE IS BEGONIA ROAD BOYS' HOME, HE SAID.

ONE SUCH

OFFENDER,

AGED

IN 13,

THE

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