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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1993

LAND RESERVED IN TUEN MUN FOR CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

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ABOUT 25 HECTARES OF LAND IN A 55-HECTARE SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL AREA IN TUEN MUN AREA 38 WILL BE RESERVED FOR THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TO SERVE BOTH NEW DEVELOPMENTS AS WELL AS EXISTING FACILITIES WHICH WISH TO MOVE THERE.

MAY

AND

THE

HON

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT

MR

BY LANDS,

TONY EASON, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION PETER WONG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR EASON SAID RECLAMATION AND SERVICING WORKS THERE WERE SCHEDULED TO START IN THE MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR FOR COMPLETION IN PHASES BY 1999.

THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT INTEND TO INITIATE OR ORGANISE RELOCATION ARRANGEMENTS, MR EASON SAID, ADDING THAT IT WOULD BE FOR OPERATORS TO DECIDE WHETHER TO RELOCATE THEMSELVES.

HEART VALVE PATIENTS PROPERLY TREATED

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THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY

CARDIOLOGIST BY A VISITING

ON ALL WALES HOSPITAL BARUAH VALVE REPLACEMENTS PERFORMED AT THE PRINCE OF

CARE AND HAS CONCLUDED THAT PATIENTS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED WITH PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT,

THE

WAS INQUIRY

BY COMMISSIONED

THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY UNDERGOING AN AFTER FOLLOWING AN INCIDENT IN WHICH A PATIENT DIED

PRINCE OPERATION INVOLVING IMPLANTATION OF BARUAH HEART VALVES AT THE OF WALES HOSPITAL IN APRIL LAST YEAR.

MUN-KA

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON MICHAEL HO IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH THAT AND WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG, SAID THE INQUIRY ALSO CONCLUDED PATIENTS' CONSENT HAD BEEN OBTAINED BEFORE THE OPERATIONS THEY HAD

EXPLANATION OF

INVOLVED.

A FULL GIVEN BEEN

THE

POTENTIAL

AND THAT RISKS

AS REGARDS THE INCIDENT IN QUESTION, THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED AND PATIENT HAD BEEN PROVIDED WITH FULL REASONS ON THE CAUSE OF DEATH A POST-MORTEM REPORT.

"HOWEVER, IT

"

WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE TO MAKE PUBLIC

AND PRIVACY OF DETAILS IN

INTEREST OF SAFEGUARDING THE RIGHT THE PATIENTS, MRS WONG SAID.

THESE

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