PEDIATRIC CENTER SELLERS DISAGREE WITH OPENS OX IACM PROPOSAL The Pediatric Rehabilitation WAREHOUSE The fourth round of talks Center is expected to provide TO BE between employers of the better assistance to children with EVICTED poultry sector and IACM took developmental difficulties place yesterday P2 P3 MDT REPORT P6 TUE.13 Jun 2017 T. 25º/ 30º C H. 80/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2821 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS BLOOMBERG AP PHOTO HK plans tech park on JAPAN A defense official said yesterday that Japan is seeking P5 to increase its sales of military equipment swamp by the border to Southeast Asian nations amid growing tensions with China and North Korea. 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More on p14 reproductive services law P2 More on backpage 13.06.2017 tue th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Worker dies HE director of the Macau THealth Bureau (SSM), Lei after iron beam Chin Ion, announced that the bureau has already started to SSM to amend assisted collapses amend the region’s law and regulations regarding Macau’s Yesterday morning, an accident assisted reproductive services. took place in a construction reproduction law However, those services would site located at the Avenida Dr. not be publicly funded. Rodrigo Rodrigues, resulting in On the sidelines of the Pe- However, as Lei noted, “we ted reproductive services. the death of a worker and injuring diatric Rehabilitation center’s are currently using adminis- The local government has re- three others. An iron beam opening ceremony, Lei infor- weighing approximately six tons, trative methods to stop it from quested mainland authorities of six meters in length, yielded med the media that only a few being abused.” to block these websites which accidently during its testing local families seek out artificial According to Lei, a few main- issue false information, and to period, hitting the workers, aged conception services in Macau, land websites claim that there release correct information to between 40 and 50 years old. The further disclosing that the ma- are various options in Macau clarify the situation in Macau. three injured workers were sent jority seeking such services in for people interested in assis- JZ to two different hospitals after the Macau are mainland residen- accident, with all showing signs of ts. “Especially after mainland diminished consciousness during issued the two-child policy,” CLINICS UNDER INVESTIGATION transportation. Construction said Lei. He added that “Ma- Lei Chin Ion works at the affected building cau’s needs are not substan- LAST WEEK it surfaced that the available through the clinics’ were suspended. tial.” SSM is investigating four private webpages and consequently con- The director indicated that gy in Macau is not better than clinics on the suspicion that these ducted a surprise inspection of there are suspictions that that in Hong Kong or the main- clinical facilities have been of- seven of these medical facilities. DSEJ not some local clinics are making land,” and that people choose fering assisted reproductive ser- In four of the cases, the presence forcing it easy for customers to obtain Macau when searching for as- vices. The bureau informed in a of devices and medicine used for these services (see box). sisted reproduction services statement that it was alerted that assisted reproduction was de- Mandarin Lei admitted to this situation, because “they saw that Macau’s such services were being made tected. explaining that “the technolo- related laws had some flaws.” teaching Wong Kin Mou, Director of the Department of Research and med that, in the upcoming ld have to wait one to 10 Educational Resources of the HeAlTH Education and Youth Affairs academic year, the Ma- years until eventually re- Bureau (DSEJ), said that the cao Polytechnic Institute ceiving treatment. DSEJ absolutely does not require (IPM) will open a physical Thanks to the opening Pediatric Rehabilitation therapy course and will of this new rehabilitation or force any schools to adopt Mandarin as the medium of offer 20 vacancies to inte- center, the treatment- instruction for Chinese language Center inaugurated rested students. waiting period can be courses. Wong claimed that Tai Wa Hou, adviser at reduced to somewhere students will be more competitive the Office of the Secre- between a half-year and if they possess the ability of Julie Zhu To meet the needs of Over 70 percent of the tary for Social Affairs and nine months. communicating bilingually, both an expanded pediatric total number of evaluated Culture, stated that every The new rehabilitation in Cantonese and Mandarin. He HE Pediatric Reha- service, the MSAR go- children were said to need child with speech difficul- center features two spee- also noted that most local schools Tbilitation Center, of- vernment is hiring more further speech, beha- ties will undergo medium ch treatment lounges, one only offer Mandarin courses, ficially established in the professional physicians, vior and other types of term treatment that will activity lounge and two typically one to two classes Areia Preta Health Center establishing more pedia- training. Currently, there cover, on average, eight other occupational treat- on a weekly basis. With this yesterday, is expected to tric treatment facilities are three speech thera- to 10 independent treat- ment lounges. The center curriculum structure Cantonese provide better and faster and spaces, and investing pists at the rehabilitation ments. can provide treatment to teaching will not be affected. medical assistance to chil- more resources in pedia- center. Tai pointed out that, four to six children simul- dren with developmental tric services. In addition, Tam infor- in the past, a child wou- taneously. difficulties. The secretary revealed Factory to be Alexis Tam, Secretary for that the Health Bureau, completely Social Affairs and Culture, along with the Education informed, during the cen- and Youth Affairs Bureau, Tam claims cultural demolished next ter’s inauguration, that it and the Social Welfare is expected to serve more Bureau will create a cen- heritage is protected year than 7,000 requests. tral distribution mecha- According to Tam, the nism of pediatric resour- LEXIS Tam, said that the go- The director of the Office for new center will greatly ces. Avernment pays great importance the Development of the Energy shorten the waiting time Workshops and training to the protection of the city’s cultural Sector (GDSE), Hoi Chi Leong, each child endures to get courses for parents will heritage. said that the CEM’s power medical treatment after also be held to enhance “Not only do we educate our society factory, located at the Avenida being through an assess- the support to the families for the importance of cultural herita- de Venceslau de Morais, will ment at the pediatric as- in their domestic rehabili- ge, but for environmental protection be completely torn down in the as well,” said Tam on the sidelines of third quarter of 2018. Currently, sessment center located tation works. CEM has already demolished in the Centro Hospitalar As disclosed by Tam, the rehabilitation center’s inaugura- that the current failure to provide the factory’s engine room. The Conde de São Januário CHCSJ’s pediatric asses- tion. Tam added that the society and adequate protection could have “se- government will supervise the (CHCSJ). sment center has hand- the government should work together rious consequences.” entire demolishing process in Simultaneously, a chil- led more than 1,000 in- towards the dissemination of these The secretary claimed that the lo- accordance with the instructions dren’s assessment center’s dividual cases, with the two social aspects. Tam claimed that cal cultural authority will continue to of the environmental evaluation website was launched to waiting time for pediatric the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) will protect cultural heritage sites under report regarding the process, Hoi broaden the knowledge of assessment shortened to carefully analyze UNESCO’s latest the guidance of UNESCO, China’s informed. The government has the society about develop- one month from the pre- documents regarding the protection State Administration of Cultural He- planned to build public housing mental difficulties in early vious nine to twelve mon- of cultural heritage in Macau, which ritage supervision and under the local on the site. childhood. ths. criticized some issues and indicated government’s supervision. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, SECRETARY Denise Lo [email protected] PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F.