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(f)
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It was decided to set up a viFmedical hot line" at 0900 hours each day between a doctor in the Port Control Centre and the master of the "lucy fong".
3rd January, 1979
(a) Medical supplies, including sea-sickness pills, were
delivered to the ship.
4th January, 1979
(a) The report of the post mortem cxemination of the
man who died on 1st January showed nothing suspicious. Cause of death was given as cirrhosis of the liver and coronary occlusion.
(b)
3 mothers and 3 children were transferred to hospital.
5th January, 1979
(a) Rations for 3 more days were supplied to the ship by
helicopter. 5 days supply of food for 200 babies was included in view of the report from the RAF doctor who interviewed the Master on 2nd January.
(b)
(c)
(d)
Fifty sacks of warm clothing, which had been donated by the public and voluntary organisations, were delivered to the ship.
It was decided that requests from the ship for writing paper and envelopes and for a visit by a priest should be refused.
The UNHCR representative in Hong Kong, Mr. Rasanayagam, had a 4-hour meeting on board HMS wasperton with the "Huey Fong's master and two refugee representatives. During this meeting the refugees said that they did not know how many were aboard and that the total might be closer to 3,400 than to 2,700. They also claimed that a man had committed suicide by jumping overboard 8 days previously and that they had decided at the time to hush up the matter.
(Further details of this meeting are in Annex C).
6th January, 1979
(a)
1,000 sheets of foolscap paper were delivered to the ship so as to enable the refugees to prepare family lists of those on board, as had been advised by the UNHCR representative.
(b) Toilet paper was delivered to the ship.
7th January, 1979
(a) At -the request of the refugees a letter written by
them was collected from the ship and delivered to the UNHCR representative in Hong Kong. A copy of this letter is at Appendix 4 to Annex C.
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