The Elderly Health Care Voucher Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme will be further extended this month to Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), achieving full coverage of the nine Mainland cities in the GBA.

Making the announcement today, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government added that two new service points under the scheme will also open in Shenzhen later this month.

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.

Of the newly added medical institutions, Jiangmen Central Hospital and Huizhou Central People's Hospital will launch service under the scheme on August 21, while The First People’s Hospital of Zhaoqing will launch service on August 28.

The two new service points in Shenzhen, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital and Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University, will launch service on August 28.

The Hong Kong SAR Government expresses its heartfelt gratitude to the Health Commission of Guangdong Province and the health authorities of the relevant cities for their strong support and assistance with the pilot scheme.

With the five aforementioned medical institutions starting to provide services this month, the goal announced in The Chief Executive’s 2024 Policy Address to extend the pilot scheme to nine Mainland cities in the GBA will be fully achieved.