The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Chris Sun, visited a residential care home for the elderly (RCHE) at the Kwu Tung North Multi-welfare Services Complex this afternoon (February 7). The Permanent Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Ms Alice Lau, also joined the visit.

     The eight-storey Kwu Tung North Multi-welfare Services Complex provides residential and community care services for the elderly people and persons with disabilities. One contract home, with 250 residential care places for the elderly, is housed on each of the first to the seventh floors, providing a total of 1 750 places, including nursing home places as well as care-and-attention places. Day Care Units for the Elderly are provided on the first and second floors. A Day Activity Centre cum Hostel for Severely Mentally Handicapped Persons and a Care and Attention Home for Severely Disabled Persons will be provided on the ground floor. The construction works of the Complex commenced in end-2019 and adopted the Modular Integrated Construction method. All seven RCHEs commenced service from August 2023.

     Mr Sun visited one of the RCHEs and was briefed by the operator on its daily operations as well as multidisciplinary nursing and care services. Mr Sun and other officials extended early Chinese New Year greetings to the elderly and participated in their festive activities. He also distributed fortune bags to the elderly in celebration of the Chinese New Year and wished them good health.

     In addition, Mr Sun and other officials took a closer look at the services and facilities of the RCHE. The Government provided gerontechnology facilities and products to the residential care homes (RCHs) in the Kwu Tung North Multi-welfare Services Complex, including contactless vital sign monitoring systems, monitoring systems with alarms for bed exit and fall detection, as well as intelligence robots for conducting scheduled room patrols and supporting virtual visits, with a view to integrating gerontechnology into the design of new RCHs to improve the quality of life of service users and the service efficiency of RCHs.

Ends/Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Issued at HKT 19:10

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