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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1991

CENTRAL RENAL COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS REVISION OF TREATMENT GUIDELINES

REVISION OF THE GUIDELINES IN THE TREATMENT OF KIDNEY

FACTOR

RESPECT

OF THE AGE IN RENAL COMMITTEE, THE SECRETARY

WILL

BE

DISCUSSED

AND

BY THE

WELFARE,

PATIENTS CENTRAL MRS

HEALTH FOR

ELIZABETH WONG, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLY

IN A WRITTEN MRS WONG SAID SHE STOOD TO BE

ΤΟ

A

QUESTION

THE BY

HON ADVISED OF ITS DELIBERATION.

НО

MUN-KA,

ADVICE OF THE

THERAPY

ACCORDING TO THE GUIDELINES ESTABLISHED ON THE

FOR MAINTENANCE CENTRAL RENAL

A PATIENT COMMITTEE, (HAEMODIALYSIS OR CAPD, THAT IS CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS) SHOULD PREFERABLY BE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 AND 55 SUFFERING FROM UNRELATED DISEASES WITH POOR PROGNOSIS OR PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSES.

AND NOT FROM SEVERE

MRS WONG SAID CURRENTLY, 1, 212 PATIENTS WERE RECEIVING

SECTOR. FORMS OF MAINTENANCE THERAPY IN THE PUBLIC

"OF THIS TOTAL, 889 ARE ON CAPD PROGRAMME AND DO NOT FALL. WITHIN THE ABOVE GUIDELINES, SHE SAID.

VARIOUS

384 OF WHICH,

UNDER TREATMENT. THEY "THESE 384 PATIENTS ARE, HOWEVER, ALSO

VARIOUS EITHER BUY THEIR OWN FLUID FOR DIALYSIS OR GET THE FLUID FROM CHARITABLE

WITH

AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, INSTITUTIONS PROVIDING OTHER NECESSARY DRUGS, TRAINING.

MRS WONG SAID

THE GOVERNMENT

GOVERNMENT-SUBVENTED MEDICAL ATTENTION

AND

WELCOMED

AND APPRECIATED

THE

ADDITIONAL

MILLION., SHE

ANNUAL

**

CONTRIBUTION OF AGENCIES IN THE COMMUNITY.

14

THE ROLE, THEIR IF WE WERE TO TAKE OVER COST TO THE PUBLIC PURSE COULD BE IN THE REGION OF $14 SAID.

POLICY FOR CHEUNG CHAU DEVELOPMENT EXPLAINED

TO

OF

THE OVERALL POLICY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHEUNG CHAU IS MAINTAIN THE RURAL CHARACTER OF THE ISLAND IN RELATION TO DENSITY

WHILE PROVIDING A BUILDING DEVELOPMENT,

AND BUILDING HEIGHT BULK FRAMEWORK FOR VARIOUS LAND USES IN APPROPRIATE LOCATIONS.

THIS

WAS STATED

BY THE

ENVIRONMENT

AND

LANDS,

MR

QUESTION BY THE HON ALBERT CHAN IN

ACTING BOWEN LEUNG, IN A

THE LEGISLATIVE

SECRETARY

FOR PLANNING, WRITTEN REPLY TO

COUNCIL

A TODAY

(WEDNESDAY).

/MR LEUNG