Premier Yu Shyi-kun led a group of government officials on a visit to the Kaohsiung county government in Fengshan yesterday to learn about the status of the SARS outbreak there at first hand.
He presented a batch of protective clothes and masks to County Commissioner Yang Chiu-hsing (
Meanwhile, Tan Kai-yuan (
Tan said the 11 hospitals include five military hospitals, four hospitals under the DOH, one county-run hospital and one city-run hospital.
These facilities will treat SARS patients referred to them by preliminary medical units and decide which patients should be treated at the nation's medical centers.
However, Tan said, the plans to convert seven of the 11 hospitals have run up against opposition from nearby residents.
Tan called on local governments to help quell the opposition to facilitate the conversions.
Another member of Yu's entourage, Chang Sheng-yuan (張聖原), who is the director of the Military Medical Bureau under the Ministry of National Defense, told Yang the Pingtung Military Hospital will be converted into a SARS hospital by June after the installation of an isolation ward.
Training for military medical personnel in treating SARS is under way, Chang went on.
Vice Minister of National Defense Chen Chao-ming (
Environmental Protection Administration chief Hau Lung-bin (
Meanwhile, Taiwan's chief delegate to the WTO said yesterday that Taiwan still has a long way to go in its bid to join the World Health Organization (WHO), but added that the country's bids for membership have gained more support and sympathy from other countries.
Taiwan's Permanent Repres-entative to the WTO, Yen Ching-chang (顏慶章), said that Beijing's obstruction has caused Taiwan a lot of difficulty in its bids to enter the WTO and China's WHO bid will also encounter more difficulties.
Noting that Taiwan must work with other countries in its efforts to become a WHO member, Yen said that through his contacts with other WTO delegates, he has a feeling that Taiwan's predicament has gained more support and sympathy.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching