Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung (first right) introduces the supplies in the community isolation facility in Yuen Long to Leader of the Mainland Chinese medicine expert group of the Central Authorities Tong Xiaolin, March 30. 2022. (PHOTO/HKSAR GOVERNMENT)
HONG KONG - A group of traditional Chinese medicine experts tasked to assist Hong Kong in its pandemic fight exchanged views with local officials and visited a community isolation facility in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
The delegation, which arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday, was led by Tong Xiaolin, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and head researcher of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.
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The expert group visited the Department of Health Wednesday morning and exchanged views with the Director of Health Ronald Lam to get a better grasp of the latest epidemic development and situation in Hong Kong,
Lam expressed gratitude to the central authorities for again sending expert groups to support Hong Kong. He said the experts brought about professional expertise in fighting against the epidemic through Chinese medicine and provided appropriate guidance on the role of Chinese medicine in the anti-epidemic work in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung (second right) briefs Tong Xiaolin (fifth left, leader of the Mainland Chinese medicine expert group of the Central Authorities, and the expert group on the work of the community isolation facility in Hung Shui Kiu, Yuen Long, March 30, 2022. (PHOTO / HKSAR GOVERNMENT)
The delegation also met with Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong Jeanie Hu Leung Tze-Wai and Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board Wong Yu-yeuk. They discussed measures in fighting against the epidemic with Chinese medicine. The expert group also shared the anti-epidemic experiences on the mainland.
In the afternoon, the expert group visited the community isolation facility in Hung Shui Kiu in Yuen Long.
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The facility is divided into two parts, with one area used as a general-purpose isolation facility and the other serving as a holding center for the elderly, with the former managed by the Security Bureau’s Anti-epidemic Task Force.
Hong Kong Director of Health Ronald Lam (seventh right), together with Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong Jeanie Hu Leung Tze-Wai (sixth right) and Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board Wong Yu-yeuk (fifth right), hold a meeting with Leader of the Mainland Chinese medicine expert group of the Central Authorities Tong Xiaolin (fourth left) and other group members to exchange views on the current regulation and development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong, March 30, 2022. (PHOTO / HKSAR GOVERNMENT)
Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung briefed the expert group on the work of facility management, including adopting a small-district and humanized management approach and making special arrangements for ethnic minority patients under isolation such as special meal arrangements during Ramadan.
People under isolation will be provided with anti-epidemic supplies including anti-epidemic proprietary Chinese medicines. In addition, the Hospital Authority has set up a free "Chinese medicine advice service" hotline, with registered Chinese medicine practitioners answering questions from those under isolation.
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