HK to review private healthcare facilities after fatal incident

HK to review private healthcare facilities after fatal incident

 HONG KONG, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- In the wake of a fatal incident involving a beauty center, Hong Kong has formed four working groups to review private healthcare facilities in the city.

The review was made under a steering¹ committee reviewing the regulatory regime for private healthcare facilities, an official with the city government said on Friday.

The committee, established last month after the death of a woman who had undergone a blood transfusion² at a beauty center, met for the first time on Friday.

Secretary for Food & Health of the city government Ko Wing-man told reporters that one of the working groups, led by Director of Health Constance Chan, will differentiate³ between medical procedures and practices, and beauty services.

It will address the health risk brought by beauty parlors⁴ improperly⁵ performing medical procedures under the cover of providing "medical beauty services", and the group will present its initial recommendations to the committee by the second quarter of next year, Ko said.

The other three groups will focus on defining high-risk medical procedures and practices performed in ambulatory settings, the regulation of premises⁶ processing health products for advanced therapies, and the regulation of private hospitals.

Ko said he plans to issue guidelines to the beauty industry, which will be incorporated into legislation in the long term.

The appointments to the remaining three working groups will be made soon.

On Oct. 10, a 46 year-old woman died in a Hong Kong hospital after suffering septic shock following blood transfusions⁷ at the beauty center in Causeway Bay. She had been infected with a drug- resistant⁸ "superbug". Another three women were badly ill after receiving the same treatment at the beauty center.

1 steering   

n.操舵装置

参考例句：

• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration. 他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
• Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵，口吻也马上变得温和了。

2 transfusion   

n.输血，输液

参考例句：

• She soon came to her senses after a blood transfusion.输血后不久她就苏醒了。
• The doctor kept him alive by a blood transfusion.医生靠输血使他仍然活着。

3 differentiate   

vi.(between)区分；vt.区别；使不同

参考例句：

• You can differentiate between the houses by the shape of their chimneys.你可以凭借烟囱形状的不同来区分这两幢房子。
• He never learned to differentiate between good and evil.他从未学会分辨善恶。

4 parlors   

客厅( parlor的名词复数 )； 起居室； （旅馆中的）休息室； （通常用来构成合成词）店

参考例句：

• It had been a firm specializing in funeral parlors and parking lots. 它曾经是一个专门经营殡仪馆和停车场的公司。
• I walked, my eyes focused into the endless succession of barbershops, beauty parlors, confectioneries. 我走着，眼睛注视着那看不到头的、鳞次栉比的理发店、美容院、糖果店。

5 improperly   

不正确地，不适当地

参考例句：

• Of course it was acting improperly. 这样做就是不对嘛！
• He is trying to improperly influence a witness. 他在试图误导证人。

6 premises   

n.建筑物，房屋

参考例句：

• According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定，场内不准饮酒。
• All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行，不用送到外面去做。

7 transfusions   

n.输血( transfusion的名词复数 )；输液；倾注；渗透

参考例句：

• Still, transfusions have apparently never spread the disease, even among hemophiliacs. 还有，输血很明显从未传播过这种病，即使在血友病人之间也是如此。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 口蹄疫疯牛病
• Blood transfusions are a special, limited example of tissue transplantation. 输血是一个特殊的、有限制的组织移植的例子。 来自辞典例句

8 resistant   

adj.(to)抵抗的，有抵抗力的

参考例句：

• Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
• They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。