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SHWF visits Wong Tai Sin (with photos)
The Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr York Chow, today (April 7)
visited a number of facilities under his portfolio in Wong Tai Sin District and
listened to views and suggestions of the local community.
Accompanied by Wong Tai Sin District Officer, Mrs Teresa Wong, and Wong Tai Sin
District Council Chairman, Mr Wong Kam-chi, Dr Chow called at the Tsz Wan Shan
Integrated Family Service Centre where he was briefed on how a continuum of
preventive, supportive and remedial services was provided to service users.
During the visit to the centre, Dr Chow took the opportunity to talk to the
participants of an information technology training programme catered for new
arrivals and single parents. He was glad to see that members of a Parent Child
Programme had actively participated in activities that are designed to foster
parent-child relationship.
The Government had never slackened in its commitment to caring for disadvantaged
groups, Dr Chow said. An additional recurrent funding of $30 million has been
allocated to launch a Family Support Programme in Integrated Family Service
Centres/Integrated Services Centres, Family and Child Protective Services Units
and Psychiatric Medical Social Services Units.
"We have allocated additional resources to strengthen and extend family
education to promote the value, ethics and individual responsibility needed for
family harmony," he added.
Dr Chow inspected two modality rear lanes in Fung Wong San Tsuen, whose hygienic
conditions were much improved under the ambit of Team Clean. The Food and
Environmental Hygiene Department also introduced to Dr Chow the measures to
improve public hygiene and combat mosquitoes.
He visited the Chi Lin Care and Attention Home to see the facilities and
services and warmly chatted with the elderly residents there. He learned that
Chi Lin was the only care and attention home in Hong Kong that had adopted the
automated monitor dosage system in dispensing.
He joined a discussion session with Wong Tai Sin District Council members.
Various matters related to the district's health, welfare, food safety and
environmental hygiene were put on the agenda.
Ends/Friday, April 7, 2006
Issued at HKT 17:32
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