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Governor visits health and elderly centres
The Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, today (Wednesday) visited the Lam Tin Polyclinic to see for himself two new services provided by the Department of Health for students and women in recent years.
On arrival at the clinic, Mr Patten was met by the Director of Health, Dr Margaret Chan, and the Deputy Director of Health, Dr TA Saw.
He was first shown around the Student Health Service Centre and the Special Assessment Centre where he saw primary school students undergoing health screening
tests.
He was told the service is popular among primary school students and will be extended to the secondary school students in the coming academic year.
The Governor then proceeded to the Woman Health Centre which provides preventive activities for women in the menopausal age group.
After that, Mr Patten called on the Sheng Kung Hui Wong Tai Sin Multi- service Centre for the Elderly. He was accompanied by the Director of Social Welfare, Mr Ian Strachan.
The centre provides a range of services for elderly people, including meals, home help, counselling, laundry and bathing services, and social and recreational activities.
It also runs an experimental volunteer workers programme since last October to recruit and train volunteers to serve individual elderly persons on a regular and long- term bases.
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