Mainland experts visit isolation facility
Accompanied by Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung (right), Mainland expert group leader Tong Xiaolin inspects the mobile negative pressure sanitising chamber in the community isolation facility in Hung Shui Kiu, Yuen Long.
Mr Tang (first right) introduces the supplies in the community isolation facility to Mr Tong (second left) and the expert group.
The Mainland expert group on Chinese medicine today visited the Department of Health and inspected the community isolation facility in Hung Shui Kiu, Yuen Long.
The expert group is led by the central authorities’ Mainland Chinese medicine expert group leader Tong Xiaolin.
The expert group this morning visited the Department of Health to exchange views with Director of Health Dr Ronald Lam, relevant colleagues and other public health experts.
They aimed to get a better grasp of the latest epidemic development and situation in Hong Kong, as well as the arrangements of close contacts under the StayHomeSafe Scheme.
Dr Lam thanked the central authorities for again sending an expert group to support Hong Kong. He pointed out that the experts brought about professional expertise in fighting the epidemic through Chinese medicine and provided appropriate guidance on the role of Chinese medicine in the city’s anti-epidemic work.
Joined by Dr Lam, the expert group then met the chairpersons of the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong and Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board, Jeanie Hu and Dr Wong Yu-yeuk, as well as other committee chairmen.
They exchanged views regarding the current regulation and development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and discussed in-depth on measures in fighting against the epidemic with Chinese medicine. The expert group also shared the anti-epidemic experiences in the Mainland.
In the afternoon, the expert group proceeded to the community isolation facility in Hung Shui Kiu, Yuen Long.
The facility is divided into two parts, one being used as a general-purpose isolation facility and the other serving as a holding centre for the elderly, with the former managed by the Security Bureau’s Anti-epidemic Task Force.
Taking part in the visit, Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung briefed the expert group on the work of facility management.
The task force has adopted a small-district and humanised management approach, making special arrangements for ethnic minority people under isolation such as special meal arrangements during Ramadan.
In addition, every person under isolation will be provided with anti-epidemic supplies including anti-epidemic proprietary Chinese medicines, while the Hospital Authority has set up a free Chinese medicine advice service hotline for them.