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We are continuing to emphasise primary health care as the most effective means of achieving the maximum benefits for health. Improvements to general outpatient service, the establishment of woman health centres and elderly health centres as well as the soon-to-be-launched Student Health Service, reflects the administration's efforts in implementing its health care policy directives towards these goals.
Mr President, the World Summit for Social Development set ambitious goals and made important commitments. When we look at what we are already doing in Hong Kong, we can see that our policies and action plans are fully consistent with the commitments set out at the Summit. Indeed, we are experiencing in almost all sectors a much greater success than most other places in meeting such commitments. We have mercifully left behind us the major problems still faced by so many in Third World but have so far eluded most of the social and economic ills now besetting many advanced economies. But we must remain watchful.
We have the policies in place to support the sustained economic growth which is vital to enable us to continue to tackle successfully any social problems which may arise. Our social services have developed to a level where all basic needs, and some relatively more sophisticated needs, are met by publicly funded services at no cost or at heavily subsidised cost to those who cannot afford to pay.
The Administration feels comfortable, therefore, with the spirit of Mr Hui's Motion and, with the reservation I have already mentioned regarding the definition of poverty, has no hesitation in supporting it.
End/Wednesday, May 17, 1995
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