THE Ombudsman has thrown out residents' objections to a day centre for former mental patients.
He said, however, that complaints by residents of Laguna City in Kwun Tong that the Government had not consulted them properly were partly substantiated.
Mr Arthur Garcia, the Commissioner for Administrative Complaints, recommended that the Government warn the public of future welfare projects.
In a written report to Legislative Councillors, Mr Garcia said objections to the activity centre and the residents' ''defiant attitude would help neither them nor the prospective clients in achieving mutual understanding and respect''.
He said the centre would admit only people who had substantially recovered from their illness.
The residents might eventually agree that the risk of patients ''running amok'' and threatening safety was ''more imaginary than real''.