Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau attended the kick-off ceremony of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital's (HKU-SZH) Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Medical Experience Camp 2024 in Shenzhen today.

The experience camp will be held between July and August. To mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the country this year, HKU-SZH has selected 75 outstanding secondary school students aged above 16 from the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and overseas to participate in the five-day experience camp.

Additionally, HKU-SZH has successfully applied for and been designated as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Medical Practice Centre by the Public Hygiene & Health Commission of Shenzhen Municipality. Prof Lo also attended the centre's unveiling ceremony today.

He offered words of encouragement to the students, adding that he believed upon completion of the five-day experience camp, they will have a thorough understanding of the nobility in safeguarding health and respecting life.

The health chief also hoped the students would keep this aspiration of becoming healthcare professionals in mind, and put the best interest of patients as their foremost belief in the future.

He reminded students to prepare themselves, join the healthcare field to serve patients and make contributions to the construction of Healthy Hong Kong, Healthy Bay Area and Healthy China.

During his stay in Shenzhen, Prof Lo also met representatives of the Public Hygiene & Health Commission of Shenzhen Municipality and HKU-SZH to discuss cross-boundary medical issues.

Prof Lo emphasised that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is actively promoting medical exchanges and co-operation between the Mainland and Hong Kong at various levels and exploring ways to improve the connectivity of cross-boundary medical services.

He expressed hoped that the two places would further deepen exchanges, and contribute to the nation and the bay area's healthcare development under the principles of complementarity and mutual benefits as well as on the premise of benefiting the healthcare development of both the Mainland and Hong Kong.