The Elderly Health Care Voucher Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme has been extended to include 12 additional medical institutions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), bringing the number of pilot medical institutions under the scheme to 19 and covering all the nine Mainland cities in the GBA, the Government announced today.

Together with the two existing service points operated by the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, a total of 21 service points in the bay area will be allowed to use Elderly Health Care Vouchers (EHCVs), benefitting more than 1.78 million eligible Hong Kong seniors.

The newly-added 12 medical institutions are Tier III Class A hospitals, providing integrated healthcare services, including dental.

Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau said the service points of the pilot scheme are meticulously planned to extend to GBA cities not yet covered in the scheme, namely Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing as well as to set up additional service points in the GBA cities that are already covered.

The extension also includes Chinese medicine hospitals for the first time to provide eligible seniors with additional choices in healthcare services, he added.

The service scope eligible for claims for the EHCVs at medical institutions under the pilot scheme will be largely the same. The arrangements for shared use of EHCVs between spouses and the EHCV Pilot Reward Scheme are also applicable.

Eligible people have to register with the eHealth system. The "Cross-boundary Health Record" and "Personal Folder" functions of the eHealth mobile application will also be applicable to the medical institutions under the scheme to offer convenience for Hong Kong citizens to self-carry their electronic health records for cross-boundary uses.

Call 2838 2311 for enquiries on the EHVS.