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Subject
18. Para-medical Training
Purpose
To provide training facilities in certain of the para-medical fields covered by the Supple- mentary Medical Pro- fessions Bill now being finalised; expanded facilities are also required to meet the rehabilitation
Progress made and present-position-.
Various meetings were held with the Medical and Health Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic, University and Polytechnic Grants Committee and Legal Department representatives. It was agreed, following legal advice, that a set of regulations should be prepared for one profession before the Bill was finalised and only that profession should be included initially in the Schedule. Draft medical laboratory technicians regulations were being prepared, to be followed by regulations for radiographers, physiotherapists and occupational projects endorsed by the therapists, the professions being given top Medical Development priority at the Polytechnic and by the Medical Advisory Committee. and Health Department.
programme and now
19. Optician
To control opticians by Legislation and legislation and to
provide training courses for them at the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Training
At a meeting held on 22nd March with representa- tives from the Medical and Health Department, University and Polytechnic Grants Committee and Hong Kong Polytechnic, it was agreed that because the majority of opticians in the private sector were young, inexperienced and with little training, it would be necessary to enact legislation to control them and to provide local training courses to qualify them, so as to remove the possible dangers created by improperly prescribed and fitted glasses, especially contact lens. Accordingly, the Medical and Health Department has been requested to consider urgently the arrangements for control so that the necessary legislation can be prepared as soon as possible. As regards training, it was agreed that the Polytechnic should organize suitable part-time day release courses to qualify the present opticians working. at, the lower level in the trade Crash courses for experienced but unqualified opticians must however await the proposed legislation.
Next quarter targets
To finalise the Supple- mentary Medical Professions Bill, to process the draft regulations for medical laboratory technicians and to liaise with the Polytechnic on courses to be introduced in 1978/79.
To consider the proposed arrangements for control when these have been received from the Director of Medical and Health Services, with a view to
preparing drafting
instructions for the new
Bill.
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