HK follows up alert system against infectious diseases

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HK follows up alert system against infectious diseases

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Hong Kong's Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong told the Legislative Council in Hong Kong Wednesday that his department has followed up closely the Response Plan for Infectious Disease Outbreak, and has been in discussion with the Hospital Authority on the implementation of the plan.

Yeoh Eng-kiong said that they had done the work by checking on the drawing up of response plans at both the cluster and hospital levels and by monitoring the testing of the response plans through exercises and drills.

The red-yellow-green alert system introduced in all public hospitals throughout Hong Kong since September this year, is part of the Hospital Authority Response Plan for Infectious Disease Outbreak.

According to the secretary, the plan allows for a corporate-wide mechanism for providing early alert to abnormal clinical presentations indicative of infectious disease occurring, detecting outbreaks at the earliest opportunity, interrupting the transmission of infectious diseases and implementing actions to cope with the service needs in public hospitals.

The plan was endorsed by the Hospital Authority Board in September 2003 and has been observed by all Hospital Authority hospitals since then, he said.

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