MAINLAND SUPPLIES SENT TO THE NEEDY

27-2-2022

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The Government task force of ensuring medical supplies has swiftly distributed medical supplies from the Mainland to frontline staff and individuals receiving treatment or those in need in the past week, the Commerce & Economic Development Bureau said today.

The bureau said that with the central government’s staunch support, the task force led by Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Edward Yau has been working closely with their Mainland counterparts and gained fruitful results.

Various kinds of medical supplies, including rapid antigen test (RAT) kits, masks, proprietary Chinese medicines, protective gear and medical products as requested by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government are arriving in the city in batches.

To date, the task force has received about 14 million RAT kits. Except those reserved for the Compulsory Universal Testing (CUT), about seven million kits have been distributed through relevant departments to specified high-risk and target groups.

They included staff and residents of residential care homes for the elderly and the disabled, medical staff, cleaning staff and cross-boundary truck drivers.

Meanwhile, 1.8 million kits have been sent to the Hong Kong Community Anti-Coronavirus Link by the Home Affairs Department for distribution to citizens.

The task force so far has received about 11 million N95 and KN95 masks. While the masks are reserved mainly for public use during the CUT, 500,000 of them have been delivered to frontline staff of the Department of Health (DH) and the disciplined services.

About 200,000 pulse oximeters received from the Mainland have all been distributed to the DH and the Hospital Authority for patients’ use.

Together with the batch arriving in Hong Kong tomorrow, the Hong Kong SAR Government has received a total of 350,000 boxes of anti-epidemic proprietary Chinese medicines donated by the central government.

So far, 120,000 boxes of the proprietary Chinese medicines have been given to the Anti-Coronavirus Link and other local organisations for distribution to the community.

The remaining 230,000 boxes will be distributed through relevant departments to patients at Hospital Authority’s Chinese medicine clinics, and people who had tested positive at isolation facilities.




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