Unwavering Anti-epidemic Efforts with Cross-Sector Cooperation 各方攜手支援 抗疫從不鬆懈 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，香港繼續面臨冠狀病毒疫情反覆不定， 東華三院無懼疫情挑戰，抗疫工作從不鬆懈，適 時回應社會的各方需要，與各界攜手，同心抗疫。 在屬下各服務單位及專業盡責團隊群策群力下， 東華三院繼續實行「防疫、抗疫、紓困」多項應 急措施及行動，以防止及應對疫情爆發、支援感 染控制和紓解民生社困，同舟共濟。 在防疫工作上，東華三院響應政府「全城起動， 快打疫苗」運動，積極鼓勵長者、學童及員工接 種疫苗，護己護人，減低病毒爆發機會。本院 屬下25 所安老院舍配合政府的疫苗接種計劃， 加快安排到診醫生或外展醫療機構，為合適院友 提供疫苗接種。截至2023 年1 月，本院安老院 院友第一、二及三劑疫苗接種比率已達到百分之 九十七、九十六及八十七。在學童防疫方面，本 院是首個與教育局合辦「學校疫苗接種日」的辦 學團體；教育局局長蔡若蓮博士太平紳士於2022 年8 月5 日更到訪東華三院邱子田紀念中學，出 席首次接種活動。除此之外，本院先後派出醫療 團隊為33 所屬校提供到校疫苗注射服務，並有 10 所屬校組織學生及家長參加民政事務總署安排 的疫苗接種計劃。截至2023 年3 月，屬校合共 有4,000多名小學生及2,000多名幼稚園學生參加 接種疫苗活動，而院屬中學及特殊學校接種率均 超過8 成。本院更讓作為父母或監護人的合資格 東華三院員工可於工作天放取不多於半天特許缺 勤，陪同其3 歲以下的子女接種新冠疫苗。本院 亦於屬下兩個醫療中心提供新冠疫苗接種服務， 至今已經為市民接種超過3,300 劑疫苗。 在抗疫工作上，本院於2022 年特別推出中醫網 上義診服務，為感染新冠病毒的病人提供視像健 康諮詢服務，得到適切的中醫治療服務，共惠 及5,590 位病人。此外，本院於2022 年受社會福 利署委託營運位於啟德郵輪碼頭的啟德暫託中心 及檢疫中心，由屬下社會服務科組成專業團隊， 先後為確診的輕症長者及被列為密切接觸者的安 老院院友提供基本膳食、護理及心理支援服務， 共照顧149 名確診長者及397 名被列為密切接觸 者的安老院院友，展現東華三院扶病拯危的專業 承擔。本院亦連繫各界攜手抗疫，屬下院舍及社 會服務科獲各界熱心捐贈大量防疫物資，以助更 好地保護前線員工及院友的安全，單位外展服務 隊亦將物資派發予劏房戶及社區長者，從而減少 病毒在社區擴散的風險。本院亦組織300 名員工 組成抗疫義工團隊到港九新界多處協助政府包 裝及派發「防疫服務包」。另外，本院再度推出 「東華三院 • 分享愛 • 疫境同行」捐助計劃，以籌 募善款用作支援前線人員及弱勢社群，為他們提 供防疫用品、措施及相關服務。 在紓困工作上，為紓緩公營醫院殮房及公眾殮房 不敷應用，屬下寰宇殯儀館殮房借出合共45 個 遺體存放位置予衞生署使用及開放3 個靈堂予專 門供殯儀業界免費借用，及後又將東華三院寰宇 殯儀館轉為新冠離世人士指定瞻仰遺容殯儀館， 並為新冠離世人士免費提供100 個直接過境喪禮
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