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Outpatient clinic facilities in camps should also be
improved with the further assistance of volunteer medical
personnel from overseas arranged by voluntary agencies.
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Furthermore, the group has recommended a more generous
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allocation of living space in camps to relieve overcrowding.
These improvements are designed not only to ensure the
health of the refugees but also to prevent Hong Kong's medical
facilities from being unduly stretched.
The group's report also contains recommendations aimed
at streamlining the administration of camps and at improving
co-ordination of the provision of language training and social
services to the refugees by voluntary agencies.
The report firmly refutes allegations, published both
in Hong Kong and abroad last year, that the facilities in
Government camps were grossly inadequate and that the refugees
had suffered constant abuse, assault and various atrocities
meted out by camp officials.
The group has followed up 29 specific allegations
collected and put to the Government by journalist Derek Maitland
and has concluded that 17 of them had no substance. In each of
the other 12 cases, there was an element of truth in the allegation
but the complainant had either not told thr whole story or had
misunderstood the true position.
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