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In response to the growing demand for residential facilities for female drug abusers, plans are in hand to reprovision the centre to increase its capacity from 39 to 57 beds.

The Government has already allocated the ex-military quarters near Kam Tsin village, Sheung Shui to SARDA for the reprovisioning and the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club has granted $3.78 million for construction works.

Attention News Editors:

Media representatives are invited to cover the Governor's visit to the Sister Aquinas Memorial Women's Treatment Centre in Sha Tin. Members of the press are requested to assemble outside Sun Ming House, ground floor, No.7-8 Sun Chui Estate, Sha Tin, before 2.45 pm.

There will be a fixed position on the ground floor of the Centre where photographers and cameramen can cover the Governor's arrival and the briefing to be given by staff of SARDA.

Due to limited space in other parts of the Centre and the need to protect the privacy of inmates, coverage of the Governor's tour of the Centre will by GIS photographers only.

While the Governor is touring around the Centre, SARDA staff will give a briefing to the press on the Centre's rehabilitation programme for female addicts.

End/Tuesday, June 20, 1995

Agencies chosen to run drug treatment centres for youths

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The Action Committee Against Narcotics (ACAN) announced today (Tuesday) that it has selected two voluntary agencies to run two additional residential treatment centres and a counselling centre for drug abusers.

Caritas Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Christian Service were each chosen to set up and operate a residential treatment centre for young opiate abusers. Caritas was also successful in another bid to run a counselling centre in the New Territories for psychotropic substance abusers.