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Minutes of the 21st Meeting of the HKSAR Third Term of Wong Tai Sin District Council (Summary Translation) Date: 8 March 2011 (Tuesday) Time: 2:30 p.m. Venue: Conference Room, Wong Tai Sin District Office, 6/F, Lung Cheung Office Block, 138 Lung Cheung Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon Present: Chairman: Mr. LI Tak-hong, MH, JP Wong Tai Sin District Council Members: Mr. CHAN Lee-shing Ms. CHAN Man-ki, Maggie Mr. CHAN On-tai Mr. CHAN Wai-kwan, Andie Mr. CHAN Yim-kwong, Joe Mr. CHOI Luk-sing, MH Mr. CHUI Pak-tai Mr. HO Hon-man Mr. HO Yin-fai Mr. HUI Kam-shing Mr. KAN Chi-ho, BBS, MH Ms. KWOK Sau-ying Mr. LAM Man-fai, JP Dr. LAU Chi-wang, James, BBS, JP Mr. LEE Tat-yan, MH Mr. MOK Chung-fai, Rex Mr. MOK Kin-wing Mr. MOK Ying-fan Dr. SHI Lop-tak, Allen, MH, JP Mr. SO Sik-kin Mr. TO Kwan-hang, Andrew Dr. WONG Kam-chiu Mr. WONG Kwok-tung Mr. WONG Kwok-yan Mr. WONG Yat-yuk Mr. WU Chi-wai, MH Mr. YUEN Kwok-keung Absent with Apologies: Mr. CHOW Ching-lam, Tony, MH Mr. LAI Wing-ho, Joe 20110407-3_DC[M21]-e.doc 1 Mr. WONG Kam-chi, MH, JP In attendance: Dr. LAM Ping-yan, JP Director of Health DH ) Re.: Item Dr. MOK Chiu-yau Community Physician DH ) III(i) Dr. Jaime SIN Senior Medical and Health DH ) Officer (Community Liaison) Mr. SO Kam-leung, Under Secretary for Commerce CEDB ) Re.: Item Gregory, JP and Economic Development ) III(ii) Mr. HOU Ka-chun, Senior Economist (Commerce & CEDB ) Desmond Industry) Mr. HON Chi-keung, Director of Civil Engineering & CEDD ) Re.: Item JP Development ) III(iii) Mr. TSOI Cheong-hoi Senior Engineer / CEDD ) Media Communications Mr. IP Wing-cheung Chief Engineer / DSD ) Re.: Item Project Management ) III(iv) Mr. TONG Kin-shing Senior Engineer / DSD ) Project Management 2 ) Mr. CHEUNG Engineer / DSD ) Chun-ning Project Management 8 ) Mr. CHEUNG Engineer / DSD ) Wing-hong Project Management 15 ) Mr. CHAN Ka-lok Principal Engineer Scott Wilson Ltd. ) Mr. TANG Man-bun, Head (Kai Tak Office) CEDD ) Re.: Item Stephen ) III(v) Mr. CHUI Si-kay, Peter Senior Engineer/6 (Kowloon) CEDD ) Mr. SUN Tak-wing, Curator (Archaeology) Antiquities and ) Kevin Monuments Office ) Ms. CHU Ha-fan, Senior Town Planner / Kowloon PlanD ) Jessica 3 ) Mr. CHAN Yuk-ming Principal Engineer AECOM Asia Co Ltd ) Mr. SHIU Wai-chuen, District Officer (WTS) WTSDO William, JP Mr. David Michael District Commander (Wong Tai HKPF GUNTON Sin) Miss Cecilla LI District Social Welfare Officer SWD (Wong Tai Sin/Sai Kung) Mr. Anthony LO Chief Engineer CEDD Kam-yan Mrs. SUNG CHEUNG Chief Manager/Management HD Mun-chi (Wong Tai Sin, Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan and Islands) Mr. AU Siu-fung, Senior Transport Officer / TD Kelven Wong Tai Sin 20110407-3_DC[M21]-e.doc 2 Mr. WONG Wai-wan, District Environmental Hygiene FEHD MH Superintendent (Wong Tai Sin) Mr. LAM Hok-hay, District Leisure Manager LCSD George (Wong Tai Sin) Mr. CHIK Yu-fai, Assistant District Officer (Wong WTSDO Freddy Tai Sin) Mr. CHUNG Chan-yau, Senior Executive Officer WTSDO Patrick (District Management) Mr. TING Tin-sang Senior Liaison Officer 1 WTSDO Ms. PANG Suk-wah, Senior Liaison Officer 2 WTSDO Phyllis Mr. YAM Yiu-hung, Executive Officer I (District WTSDO Nathan Council) Secretary Ms. LAM Pui-fun, SEO(DC) WTSDO Maggie Opening Remarks The Chairman welcomed everyone to the 21st meeting of the Wong Tai Sin District Council (WTSDC), especially Dr. LAM Ping-yan, JP, Director of Health; Dr. MOK Chiu-yau, Community Physician and Dr. Jaime SIN, Senior Medical and Health Officer (Community Liaison) who attended the meeting for agenda item III(i). 2. The Chairman welcomed Ms. Maggie LAM who replaced the outgoing Secretary of WTSDC Mrs. Teresa SOH. WTSDC endorsed to record a vote of thanks to Mrs. SOH for her contribution. 3. The Chairman welcomed Mr. Freddy CHIK who replaced the outgoing Assistant District Officer Miss Kathy MA. WTSDC endorsed to record a vote of thanks to Miss MA for her contribution. 4. The Chairman welcomed Mr. George LAM who replaced the outgoing District Leisure Manager (Wong Tai Sin) Ms. Lizzy YAU. WTSDC endorsed to record a vote of thanks to Ms. YAU for her contribution. 5. The Chairman welcomed Mr. Kelvin AU, Senior Transport Officer (Wong Tai Sin), who stood in for Mr. Vincent FAN, Chief Transport Officer (Kowloon) who was unable to attend the meeting due to other official commitments. 6. Members noted that Vice-chairman Mr. WONG Kam-chi, MH, JP; Dr. WONG Kam-chiu and Mr. Tong CHOW, MH were absent from the meeting with apologies. Mr. Wong and Dr. WONG would endeavour to attend the meeting. 20110407-3_DC[M21]-e.doc 3 I. Confirmation of the Minutes of the 20th Meeting of WTSDC held on 4 January 2011 7. Mr. SO Sik-kin proposed that the Chinese version of paragraph 5 of the minutes should be amended from “……政府就沙中線(黃大仙段)工程與黃大仙區議 會達成共識前,已於二零一零年十一月二十六日將工程方案刊憲……” to “……政 府就沙中線(黃大仙段)工程與黃大仙區議會未能達成共識前,已於二零一零年十 一月二十六日將工程方案刊憲……”. (The English version of paragraph 5 was not required to amend.) 8. The minutes of the 20th meeting of WTSDC held on 4 January 2011 were then confirmed. II. Progress Report on Matters Arising from the 20th Meeting of the Wong Tai Sin District Council (WTSDC Paper 14/2011) 9. Members noted the paper. 20110407-3_DC[M21]-e.doc 4 III(i) Director of Health’s Visit to the Wong Tai Sin District Council 10. The Chairman welcomed Dr. LAM Ping-yan, JP, Director of Health; Dr. MOK Chiu-yau, Community Physician and Dr. Jaime SIN, Senior Medical and Health Officer (Community Liaison), and invited Dr. LAM to introduce work plan of the Department of Health (DH) in 2011/12. 11. Dr. LAM said it was the second time he had visited WTSDC. He remarked that Wong Tai Sin was always at the forefront of healthy city development, and congratulated the district for its designation of “International Safe Community” in a ceremony attended by him recently. To allow more time to listen to Members’ views, he would only talk about a few major public concerns: (i) Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (a) Winter and summer were peak seasons of influenza. The winter influenza season in Hong Kong started in mid-January. This year was unusual, as about 90% of the cases were caused by influenza A virus [i.e. H1N1(2009), also known as human swine flu virus], and few cases involved H3N2 or influenza B viruses. It was fortunate that the number of influenza cases had started to drop since early February, and was anticipated that further drop would occur in the coming couple of weeks until the number of cases was back to normal in mid-March. Although there were more influenza cases than in the past two years, it still did not hit the record number in the 2009 influenza pandemic. In other words, the situation was not too serious, and the cases were relatively minor in general; (b) One should try to learn more about influenza as breakout of the disease was natural phenomenon and would occur annually. DH would step up its publicity and risk communication efforts from time to time, with a view to helping people know more about influenza, including its risk and prevention. Although the number of influenza cases was dropping, high risk target groups were still advised to receive influenza vaccinations through the Government’s vaccination programme, which was originally launched to protect people’s health during the winter influenza season. Members of the public should keep vigilant against influenza as they might catch the disease in any time of the year; and (c) The Government always advised people to do more exercise, eat more vegetable and fruit, keep ventilation well, quit smoking etc. In addition, Chinese medicine might also be used to prevent influenza. He hoped members of the public would continue to attach high importance to flu prevention 20110407-3_DC[M21]-e.doc 5 (ii) Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (a) Non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes, hypertension etc. accounted for 60% of our healthcare expenditure. While Hong Kong’s population was living longer, but more and more people were suffering from stress. They also ate deep fried food and had other unhealthy eating habits. The above situations, if not changed, would shorten the life expectancy of the coming generation and more people would suffer from cardiac diseases at a younger age. Therefore, it was important to formulate a strategy to control and prevent NCD; and (b) Instead of targeting individual disease, the disease prevention strategy was aimed to improve the living habits of Hong Kong people. The Government had formed a high-level steering committee chaired and vice-chaired by Secretary for Food and Health Dr. York CHOW and Dr. LAM respectively. A number of working groups were formed under the steering committee to work on NCD-causing factors such as over-weight, obesity etc. To tackle these factors, the working groups had proposed a number of actions which would be implemented in phases. (iii) Promotion of Healthy Eating Habits (a) Promotion of healthy eating habits was one of the proposed actions implemented. Although local students were familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid, they tended to choose unhealthy food. In this connection, the Government had to change the school environment and parents’ mindset about parent-child relationship. Also, schools should cooperate with parent-teacher associations to improve the food quality provided by lunch suppliers and their own tuck shops.