Unwavering Anti-epidemic Efforts with Cross-Sector Cooperation 各方携手支援 抗疫从不松懈 Amid the erratic development of the COVID-19 pandemic across the territory in 2022, TWGHs took on the anti-epidemic challenges with vigilance, and responded to community needs by working together with different sectors. Thanks to the coordinated efforts of all service units and professional teams of TWGHs, the Group continued to tide over the difficult times by implementing various measures and actions in “epidemic prevention, epidemic control and epidemic relief”. All these were done to forestall and combat the pandemic, support the curb of spread, and relieve the hardship of people in response to community needs for mutual help. In epidemic prevention, TWGHs urged the elderly, its students and employees to protect themselves and others through vaccination, for the purpose of supporting the Government‘s "Early Vaccination for All" campaign and reducing the chance of potential outbreak. Dispatch of visiting medical officers or outreach medical organisations was expedited to provide vaccination under the Government’s vaccination programme for eligible residents at 25 residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs) of the Group. As at January 2023, residents in the RCHEs who had received the 1st, 2nd and 3rd doses of vaccination reached as much as 97%, 96% and 87% respectively. To protect students from the pandemic, TWGHs was the 1st sponsoring body to co-organise “School Vaccination Day” with the Education Bureau, with Dr. the Hon. CHOI Yuk Lin, JP, Secretary for Education, attending the 1st vaccination activity at TWGHs Yau Tze Tin Memorial College on 5 August 2022. Meanwhile, TWGHs medical teams were deployed to provide vaccination services at 33 TWGHs schools, and 10 TWGHs schools organised students and parents to join the vaccination programme under the Home Affairs Department. Up to March 2023, more than 4,000 primary students and more than 2,000 kindergarten students participated in the vaccination activities while the vaccination rates at TWGHs secondary schools and special schools both exceeded 80%. TWGHs granted a special leave of up to half a working day to its eligible staff who were either parents or guardians to take their children aged under 3 to receive COVID-19 vaccination. Moreover, COVID-19 vaccination services were also provided at 2 TWGHs medical centres, with over 3,300 doses of vaccines already administered to citizens. In epidemic control, along with the special launch of free online Chinese medicine consultation during 2022, TWGHs provided virtual health consultation and quality Chinese medicine services that benefitted a total of 5,590 COVID-19 patients. Moreover, as commissioned by the Social Welfare Department to operate Kai Tak Holding Centre and Quarantine Centre at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in 2022, TWGHs set up a professional team composed of staff from the Community Services Division. By offering basic meals, caring services and psychological support to 149 elderly patients confirmed with mild COVID-19 symptoms as well as 397 residents in RCHEs classified as close contacts, TWGHs demonstrated the professional dedication in caring for the sick. TWGHs was not alone in the fight against the pandemic, with anti-epidemic supplies pouring in generously from different sectors to our RCHEs and the community services units for better protection and safety of our frontline staff and residents. The outreaching service team of the service units also distributed supplies among residents living in subdivided unit and the elderly in the community to reduce the risk of virus spread in the community. Three hundred TWGHs staff members also formed a team of volunteers who helped the Government to pack and distribute "antiepidemic service bags" to various areas across the territory. In addition to that, TWGHs relaunched the “ TWGHs Share Love & Fight the Epidemic” Donation Campaign for raising fund in support of frontline staff and the disadvantaged groups with anti-epidemic supplies, measures and related services. In epidemic relief, to alleviate the shortage of facilities at public hospital mortuaries and public mortuaries, TWGHs Global Funeral Parlour loaned out 45 body storage spaces for use by the Department of Health and opened 3 halls for the trade free of charge at TWGHs Global Funeral Parlour, which was later designated for holding of viewing ceremonies and provided, among others, a quota of 100 times of free direct transit 2022 年，香港继续面临冠状病毒疫情反复不定， 东华三院无惧疫情挑战，抗疫工作从不松懈，适 时回应社会的各方需要，与各界携手，同心抗疫。 在属下各服务单位及专业尽责团队群策群力下， 东华三院继续实行「防疫、抗疫、纾困」多项应 急措施及行动，以防止及应对疫情爆发、支援感 染控制和纾解民生社困，同舟共济。 在防疫工作上，东华三院响应政府「全城起动， 快打疫苗」运动，积极鼓励长者、学童及员工接 种疫苗，护己护人，减低病毒爆发机会。本院 属下25 所安老院舍配合政府的疫苗接种计划， 加快安排到诊医生或外展医疗机构，为合适院友 提供疫苗接种。截至2023 年1 月，本院安老院 院友第一、二及三剂疫苗接种比率已达到百分之 九十七、九十六及八十七。在学童防疫方面，本 院是首个与教育局合办「学校疫苗接种日」的办 学团体；教育局局长蔡若莲博士太平绅士于2022 年8 月5 日更到访东华三院邱子田纪念中学，出 席首次接种活动。除此之外，本院先后派出医疗 团队为33 所属校提供到校疫苗注射服务，并有 10 所属校组织学生及家长参加民政事务总署安排 的疫苗接种计划。截至2023 年3 月，属校合共 有4,000多名小学生及2,000多名幼稚园学生参加 接种疫苗活动，而院属中学及特殊学校接种率均 超过8 成。本院更让作为父母或监护人的合资格 东华三院员工可于工作天放取不多于半天特许缺 勤，陪同其3 岁以下的子女接种新冠疫苗。本院 亦于属下两个医疗中心提供新冠疫苗接种服务， 至今已经为市民接种超过3,300 剂疫苗。 在抗疫工作上，本院于2022 年特别推出中医网 上义诊服务，为感染新冠病毒的病人提供视像健 康咨询服务，得到适切的中医治疗服务，共惠 及5,590 位病人。此外，本院于2022 年受社会福 利署委托营运位于启德邮轮码头的启德暂托中心 及检疫中心，由属下社会服务科组成专业团队， 先后为确诊的轻症长者及被列为密切接触者的安 老院院友提供基本膳食、护理及心理支援服务， 共照顾149 名确诊长者及397 名被列为密切接触 者的安老院院友，展现东华三院扶病拯危的专业 承担。本院亦连系各界携手抗疫，属下院舍及社 会服务科获各界热心捐赠大量防疫物资，以助更 好地保护前线员工及院友的安全，单位外展服务 队亦将物资派发予劏房户及社区长者，从而减少 病毒在社区扩散的风险。本院亦组织300 名员工 组成抗疫志愿者团队到港九新界多处协助政府包 装及派发「防疫服务包」。另外，本院再度推出 「东华三院 · 分享爱 · 疫境同行」捐助计划，以筹 募善款用作支援前线人员及弱势社群，为他们提 供防疫用品、措施及相关服务。 在纾困工作上，为纾缓公营医院殓房及公众殓房 不敷应用，属下寰宇殡仪馆殓房借出合共45 个 遗体存放位置予衞生署使用及开放3 个灵堂予专 门供殡仪业界免费借用，及后又将东华三院寰宇 殡仪馆转为新冠离世人士指定瞻仰遗容殡仪馆， 并为新冠离世人士免费提供100 个直接过境丧礼
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