Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan visited a COVID-19 vaccination event organised by a private healthcare institution in Kowloon Bay today.

The District Health Centres (DHCs) and DHC Expresses had actively assisted citizens in need to make appointments for the event in order to get their jabs.

Prof Chan said the Government has set up additional service points to facilitate people to get vaccinated in response to the surging public demand for COVID-19 vaccination.

The DHCs and DHC Expresses have also been promoting vaccination at the district level by organising related education activities and outreach vaccination services, as well as assisting those in need, especially the elderly, in making appointments for vaccination at community vaccination centres and mobile vaccination stations or through private doctors and clinics.

In the past two weeks, the DHCs and DHC Expresses helped about 170 people make bookings for seven vaccination sessions conducted by three private healthcare institutions.

They also collaborated with medical practitioners in the community to provide nine outreach vaccination services, involving around 700 participants.

Additionally, staff of the DHCs and DHC Expresses will call people who got their jabs in one or two days to check their condition and assist those in need to arrange for receiving the second or third dose. Prof Chan expressed appreciation to those staff for their caring efforts.

The health chief noted that in the face of imminent threats of a new wave of the epidemic, the Government will continue to implement the most stringent measures to prevent the mutant strains from spreading in the local community.

She strongly appealed to the public, especially senior citizens, to get vaccinated so as to protect themselves and others and fight the epidemic together.