HK, Mainland Cooperate to Prevent Disease Spreading

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Saturday, March 22, 2003

HK, Mainland Cooperate to Prevent Disease Spreading

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Hong Kong and mainland officials will attend a meeting in Hong Kong organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss various health issues relating to the severe respiratory syndrome (SRS) that has recently struck Hong Kong and various parts of the world.

Yeoh Eng-kiong, secretary for health, welfare and food of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, told the media Saturday that Hong Kong and the mainland had agreed to foster closer ties on information exchange and disease notification on the recent outbreak of SRS which had affected some 200 people in Hong Kong, most of them are health care workers and relatives who have close contacts with the pneumonia patients.

Efforts would be made to provide as much information as possible about the infectious disease in the mainland through the Ministry of Health in Beijing, he said.

Yeoh said he would also seek to enhance communications with the Guangdong authorities and would discuss further with it to understand more about the infectious disease particularly the severe respiratory syndrome cases in the province, and to foster closer cooperation in controlling the spread of the disease.

WHO has also sent a team of experts to Hong Kong to provide technical assistance to the Hong Kong health authorities.

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