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Honourable ministers of Health
Dear colleagues
Members of the legislative council
Ladies and Gentlemen

On behalf of the Hong Kong Government, I would like to express my gratitude to all the representatives from all sectors of the community to be involved in this meeting.

I thank all of you for allowing me to host my speech at short notice to clarify on the current SARS rumours going on in our society.

The SARS first struck human beings in 2002, the 16th of November in Chancheng district, located in Foshan City of Guangdong province, People’s Republic of China. Since then, around 300 people are being infected in Guangdong. In spite of the number of infected people, the leading Guangdong provincial health official said that the Pneumonia …show more content…

This affects people’s health greatly especially in the climate of spring. Due to all these circumstances, low awareness of personal hygiene and insufficient medical devices might be the possible reason for the nuisance SARS brought to the Guangdong province.

In Hong Kong, we have the most advanced medical knowledge and the best medical team to deal with any emergency issues. Even if SARS DO attacks Hong Kong, we have confidence to overcome and fully deal with the problem we are facing.

As for the rumours that were going around the city, about SARS is spreading across the city, are fake and untrue statements. There are no evidences proving the presence of life threat to the people due of SARS. Like all other common diseases, SARS is neither a deadly or terrifying disease. It’s just a flu that happens to appear this spring. Spring used to be a season where people’s immune system becomes weaker due to rapid temperature change, it is also a season when diseases develops and manipulates the best. This is the main reason why SARS could do so much harm to our society.

Due to the insignificant damage of SARS to citizens, all schools would be opened as planned after the holidays, and no other special arrangements would be needed for the issue of …show more content…

A team of medical experts are having medical researches on SARS, and there are no evidence proving vinegar could help. On the other hand, taking traditional Chinese anti-flu medicine is far too dangerous because we don’t know the contents and the relative dosage for different individuals. Excluding the fact that it does help, health condition of each individual are different, mistaking an excessive or insufficient amount of medicine would be either harmful or

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