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Supplementary to LegCo Question No. 2

in Legislative Council on 3 April 1985

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Miss Dunn:- Sir, is there any difference in the

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given to patients who are in custodial wards and those who

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are in general wards? For example, are patients in custodial

wards visited as often as patients in general wards; are normal

records kept of patients' conditions between doctors' visits;

and is the Government satisfied that the staff do not adopt

a less caring attitude simply because the patients concerned

are in a custodial ward?

Director of Medical and Health Services:- Sir, the direct

answer to Miss Dunn's question is no, Sir. There are no

difference between the treatment given to patients in

custodial wards or people in the general wards. They are

put in a special unit which gives them the normal amount of

care that would normally be given to other people. Normal

records are kept and of course, the staff are expected to

see to it that the proper procedures are carried out within

their professional judgement.

Miss Dunn: What about the attitude of staff?

Director of Medical and Health Services:- They are expected

to behave themselves as doctors or nurses to a patient and to

them, a patient in a custodial ward is the same as a patient

in a general ward.