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(a) support and assistance for paralysed patients living in the community

The self-help groups also urged the Administration to conduct an overall review of the support and assistance for tetraplegic patients living in the community, including setting up dedicated residential care homes for severely disabled persons of normal intellect and mental state; creating a barrier-free environment for people with disabilities; and establishing an inter-departmental committee comprising representatives from the relevant policy bureaux/Government departments and representatives of disability groups to regularly monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of the support and assistance provided to tetraplegic patients.

Previous and recent strategic transport studies have predicted further increase in traffic demand along the eastwest corridor, and confirmed the need for a parallel east-west Trunk Road to avoid more extensive and frequent traffic congestion, and even gridlock, on the road network.

Mr FUNG further said that he supported the idea of tetraplegic patients living in the community, and considered that there was a need to have in place a policy to better help family carers of tetraplegic patients.

We know for sure that the Government will be short of funds, and civil servants will not be able to receive their pay, elderly people will not be able to receive their "fruit grant", CSSA recipients cannot receive their CSSA payments and the public services provided by the Government may be paralyzed and come to a halt, so in fact, the consequences are dire.

Even with all the traffic management measures, traffic in CRI will be paralyzed by 2011 if Road P2 network is not built, because continuous traffic queues will be found along CRC (without CWB), and vehicles from Connaught Place will not be able to exit onto CRC even when the traffic lights are in their favour.

For those medically certified to be in need of constant attendance, a “Care and Attention Allowance” may also be provided to cover the costs of care and attention services at home (including the cost of hiring a carer) on social worker’s recommendation.

Actually, this sum of funds is always in the Treasury, and since the Treasury never closes, how can it be said that there is a crisis in causing a paralysis in government operations?

In addition, the SWD also provides other types of community support services for persons with disabilities and their parents, for example, District Support Centre for Persons with Disabilities, Community Rehabilitation Day Centre, Transitional Care and Support Centre for Tetraplegic Patients, Day Care Service for Persons with Severe Disabilities, Residential Respite Service, Parents/Relatives Resource Centre for Disabled Persons and Integrated Community Centre for Mental Wellness, and so on.

ADSW(R&MSS) supplemented that although the grant approved by the Yan Chai Tetraplegic Fund for hiring personal helper was generally one year, a review would be made three to four months prior to the expiry of the funding period to see if the grant should be extended.

A better one should be: why not make a bigger bird cage so that the bird can have more space to fly unless you want its wings to degenerate to the extent that it will become crippled just like a hen that cannot fly?

Should that road be blocked because of any serious traffic accident or natural calamity, most of the external traffic of the district will be brought to a standstill.

HD has also set up a joint task force with various welfare and medical agencies to arrange for the tetraplegics to move to the modified flats in PHEs to help them to re-integrate into the community.

This loss of road capacity, from a major strategic road corridor that is already operating over capacity and will continue to operate at or near capacity even after the implementation of the Trunk Road, would most like result in a gridlock situation and cannot be tolerated; this means that the overriding need for the Trunk Road cannot be met.

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Notwithstanding the training provided to carers provided by, say, the medical specialists of the Hospital Authority (HA) and occupational therapists of the Home-based Training and Support Teams, a sum of money had also been granted by the Administration to the paralysed patients’ self-help groups in December 2004 to enable them to provide their own carer training.

As tetraplegic patients required round-the-clock care, the self-help groups called upon the Administration to provide this group of patients with an additional monthly allowance to hire a carer or subsidise those family members who gave up their jobs to care for them.

The stagnant traffic will have a spill over effect leading to congestion in the neighbouring roads in Central and Wan Chai, and complete gridlock in the road network may easily occur.

President, I hope that officials of the SAR Government should set a higher standard for themselves and they must not say after a resolution has been voted down that the move would paralyze government operations.

(b) whether the Government has any contingency plan to deal with major incidents occurring in Hong Kong (e.g. power outages, terrorist attacks and natural disasters, etc.) which may paralyse the whole railway system and render it impossible to resume operation within a short time; if it has, of the specific details of its contingency plan (including, within a short time, how to notify the public of the incident, evacuate passengers from the MTR trains and stations, coordinate road traffic to deal with a passenger flow of nearly 1 million passenger trips, and ensure that emergency ambulance services are not affected, etc.); if not, whether the relevant government departments and MTRCL will work together as soon as possible to formulate joint contingency measures; whether the Government will step up publicity on the contingency plan for railway incidents, and publish the information to facilitate public perusal?

Hon CHOY So-yuk also asked the Administration to allocate more resources to provide training to carers and to provide assistance enabling tetraplegic patients to modify their homes to suit their special needs.

Although the Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance does not specify the circumstances under which the powers under it may be exercised, past experience tells us that the Legislative Council will exercise the relevant privileges only when there is a need to conduct an in-depth investigation into a major blunder or scandal connected with the Government, such as the paralyzing of the new airport following its inauguration and the short-piling incident of Home Ownership Scheme flats.

We also help the parents establish relationships of trust and mutual support with one and other, helping each other as they raise these children with cerebral palsy.

A team of researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), working with other experts from Hospital Authority hospitals, has discovered a DNA variation located on chromosome 17q24.3 near KCNJ2 gene was significantly associated with thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP).