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In order to regulate the homes for the elderly which provide hostel care for persons over 60 and to ensure their services are up to standard, the Government formulated the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance in October last year and implemented it on April 1 this year, she added.
Mrs Chan hoped that the community and non-government organisations would continue to support and participate in local elderly services in different ways.
End/Friday, April 7, 1995
HK delegation attends World Health Day in Beijing
The Hong Kong delegation, currently in Beijing on a visit to the Ministry of Public Health, were invited to attend the celebrations of World Health Day today (Friday).
The World Health Organisation's (WHO) global target of "A World Without Polio" by the year 2000 has been adopted by China, the venue chosen by WHO for celebrating World Health Day this year.
The Director-General of WHO, Dr Hiroshi Nagajima, and Regional Director for the Western Pacific, Dr S T Han, both spoke at the opening ceremony held in the Great Hall of the People. They warmly praised China's success in eradicating polio in the country by the end of 1995, five years ahead of the global target.
The opening ceremony was attended by State Councillor of the Chinese National State Council, Madam Peng Peiyun; Minister of Public Health, Professor Chen Minzhang; other senior officials in the Ministry of Health; and hundreds of representatives from the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund and other international organisations.
The leader of the Hong Kong delegation, the Secretary for Health and Welfare, Mrs Katherine Fok, said members of the delegation were delighted and privileged to be invited to the World Health Day celebrations.
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