The Home & Youth Affairs Bureau, the District Services & Community Care Teams and the University of Hong Kong’s Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) today held a launch ceremony for the “Shape Your Healthy Life: 18 District Health Community Project” and the first health promotion event under it.

The project aims to strengthen community-level primary health support and help citizens to gain practical health knowledge.

Officiating at the ceremony, Secretary for Home & Youth Affairs Alice Mak said the collaboration combines the care teams’ community networks with HKUMed’s professional medical knowledge. She expressed hope that the project raise citizens’ awareness of physical and mental health and harness the power of communities in shaping healthy lives.

The year-long, citywide project will provide free health screenings, public seminars, community sports programmes and health consultations to elderly people and families. In the coming months, various activities tailored to the needs of different communities will be launched.

After today's ceremony, a district health promotion event was held, with over 250 citizens participating in health talks and receiving free health screening services.