[Explanation] Recently, the Hong Kong Civil Service Secretary Nie Dequan, who is responsible for coordinating the new crown vaccination work, publicly stated that the first batch of new crown vaccines is expected to arrive in Hong Kong next month and it is expected that the public will be vaccinated on or after the Chinese New Year.
Nie Dequan pointed out that there are about 4 ways of vaccination, namely, setting up vaccination centers in the community, sending staff to nursing homes by the Hong Kong government, in private hospitals and private clinics, or provided by hospital clinics of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and outpatient clinics of the Department of Health. Related Services.
A doctor’s union estimates that about 1,000 private doctors will participate in the vaccination plan.
A few days ago, Huang Dexiang, the medical administrative director of the Workers’ Medical Institute of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that the addition of private hospitals and clinics will greatly increase the number and efficiency of vaccination in Hong Kong.
[Concurrent] Huang Dexiang, Director of Medical Administration, Workers Medical Institute, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
I believe that because there are too many people in Hong Kong, if the government only relies on government clinics, the government will not be able to help all Hong Kong people in a short period of time.
If we all private doctors, our trade union clinics or clinics of other non-government organizations, go to get injections together, I believe the vaccination rate will be much better than that in other countries (or regions), and there will be no need for such a long time.
In addition to our regular employees, if the Hong Kong government needs us to work harder, we are willing to find more medical staff, some retired nurses and doctors to help, and to help residents inject the vaccine as soon as possible.
[Explanation] Huang Dexiang said that in the past many years, his medical clinic has vaccinated the citizens every year, so the medical staff have rich vaccination experience.
However, considering that the various new crown vaccines arriving in Hong Kong each have their own storage methods and preliminary preparations, for example, the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech vaccine must be stored in an environment of minus 70 degrees Celsius, and can only be stored in an environment of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius for a few days , And use it up within a few hours after dilution.
Therefore, he hopes that relevant government departments can announce detailed vaccination plans and information in advance, so as to allow sufficient preparation time for some non-public clinics participating in the plan.
[Concurrent] Huang Dexiang, Director of Medical Administration, Workers Medical Institute, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
If it is an injection, in fact, our private doctors and private nurses are used to it. In fact, it is not difficult, but we want to know how to prepare each vaccine, how to store it, and how to do it.
This requires the government to tell us what to do in the future. For the time being, we are waiting for the government to tell us some detailed information. We can cooperate to prevent these vaccines from becoming invalid and help citizens get vaccinated quickly.
[Explanation] Huang Dexiang said that the future epidemic prevention work in the vaccination process is still important.
The medical clinic will register and triage the people who come for vaccination in advance, and complete the vaccination work in a staggered manner.
In addition, he also emphasized that the dose of vaccine purchased by the government this time was sufficient, and appealed to the public to not be too nervous to avoid group vaccination and cross-infection.
[Concurrent] Huang Dexiang, Director of Medical Administration, Workers Medical Institute, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
Because we are afraid of too many people coming together for injections, afraid of not knowing who is asymptomatic.
Then we really need to divert them and schedule them for injections in an orderly manner.
This eliminates the need for many people to stay together in such a small place in a short period of time, and the chance of cross infection is high.
The most important thing is to give the public confidence that our injection (vaccine) is sufficient, and there is no need to be nervous. We will help everyone get this vaccine in a short time.
Patients and members, they do not need to be too nervous, (no need) the first time there is an injection, they will all come to the clinic for injections immediately.
Reporter Fan Siyi and Li Yue from Hong Kong
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]