During the same period seminars for teachers, sex education workshops for adolescents and film shows were held in the recital Hall.
Earlier in the year, the CHEU had been involved in public education on malaria and AIDS. To enable the public to obtain speedy and easy access to accurate, up-to-date information on AIDS, the 24-hour hot- line service utilizing tape recordings, was expanded to six lines. Facilities were also provided for answering more detail enquiries.
To promote concern among residents of Sai Kung over the problem of malaria, an anti-malaria project for secondary school students was organised.
Campaigns on Healthy Family and Heart Health continued with exhibition display, workshop and special health talks. Interdepartmental campaigns on Mental Health and Anti-Smoking were also conducted in association with the Education and Manpower Branch and the Health and Welfare Branch,
Other health educational activities included sexually transmitted discases, imunization campaigns for school children, the comprehensive observation scheme, the neonatal screening programme, hepatitis vaccination programme as well as organ donation campaign.
Increased community concern for health was shown by the popularity of the resource supply service, where audio visual materials were loaned free of charge to schools and voluntary agencies. In addition, an increasing number of persons visited the three audio visual centres to obtain information on health matters.
Dental Service
A school children dental service was introduced in 1980. The service provides regular dental examinations and simple dental treatment to primary school children. The response from parents to this aspect of preventive dentistry has been very encouraging. At the end of the sixth year of operation, the number of participants from Primary I to V school children has reached some 285 852. The participation rate has increased to about 649 as compared with 29% in the first year. To enable the scheme to cover eventually all the primary school children, five more school dental clinics have been planned in addition to the existing four in operation.
The Government Dental Service provides dental care for all civil servants and their dependants as well as simple dental treatment for the inmates of penal institutions and specialist treatment for patients in Government hospitals. Emergency treatment is also provided to the public in a number of district dental clinics.
Port Health Service
The Port Health Service enforces control at Hong Kong International Airport and in the territory's waters, to prevent the introduction of quarantinable diseases and to carry out other measures required under the International Health Regulations.
The service provides facilities for vaccination and the issuing of international vaccination certificates. It also inspects and supervises the eradication of rats from ships on international voyages. The service provides medical assistance to ships in the harbour, transmits medical advice to ships at sea, operates a 24-hour health clearance service for all incoming vessels, and grants radio pratique to ships.
The health staff also maintain close surveillance on the food catering service to international airlines to ensure that food and water supplied by the flight kitchen service is clean and safe,
Epidemiological information is exchanged regularly with the World Health Organisation in Geneva and its Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila and with neighbouring countries.
School Medical Service
The School Medical Service Scheme is operated by an independent statutory School Medical Service Board. The scheme offers an economic form of medical treatment service to all school children in Primary I to Form III. Participation is voluntary and, for a token fee of $10 a year, a participant can receive free medical attention from a general medical practitioner of the school's choice. The Government contributes $65 a year for each pupil enrolled and also bears the administrative cost of operating the Scheme. The general response to the Scheme is favourable and more than 360 general medical practitioners are enlisted in the Scheme,
Over 349 000 school children from 879 schools participated in the Scheme as at 31 March 1986, representing a coverage of about 44% of the total eligible school population.
The School Health Service, a Government responsibility, deals with the environmental health and sanitation of school premises and the control of communicable diseases. School health officers, health visitors and health inspectors make frequent inspections of schools, and advise on matters concerning the health of the children and organise special health educational activities and immunization campaigns,
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