One way of consoling those who have suffered or lost the ones they love is to offer to do your very best to ensure a similar situation does not happen again.

This was the message from SARS Expert Committee co-chairman Sir Cyril Chantler addressing a luncheon meeting today.

He said the experts will do their best to implement the 46 recommendations in their report on SARS to enhance Hong Kong's defences against the illness.

His fellow chairman Professor Sian Griffiths and two local members, Professors Rosie Young and Lee Shiu-hung, have joined a monitoring committee to oversee the implementation of recommendations.

Professor Griffiths said a health protection centre has been proposed instead of a centre for disease control because Hong Kong needs a central point for with appropriate outbreak control plans.

"What you need in Hong Kong is something appropriate to a city state of approximately seven million people," she said, adding that the US' Centres for Disease Control & Prevention is for a larger federal government.

The committee members continued their busy schedule today, explaining the findings and recommendations of the report to the public through media interviews and forums.

In these meetings, they briefed the medical faculties of two universities and 50 representatives from the health care sector, patients right groups and the Amoy Gardens owner's committee.

They met with over 100 officers from the Health, Welfare & Food Bureau, Department of Health, Hospital Authority and Social Welfare Department.

The full and summary reports of the SARS Expert Committee are accessible on the committee's website at http://www.sars-expertcom.gov.hk.

Over 100,000 copies of the summary reports are available for collection at all District Offices.