As there is community outbreak of COVID-19, the government is now planning a Compulsory Universal Testing(CUT). While concrete plan and operational details are yet available, it is a big concern of the sector of how our service users should be assisted during the period so that smooth and effective collection of specimens can be ensured. In connection to this, our Council is communicating with Social Welfare Department, hoping to plan for different specimen collection procedures for different user groups.
To advocate for suitable methods, procedures and resources for the specimen collection for different user groups, we have to estimate the numbers of different user groups in different settings for the planning. We hereby request each agency member to take immediate actions for the following tasks:
- Provide statistics of service users: Please click this link to provide statistics of service users of different service units for the planning of procedures and manpower for CUT. The information collected does not contain any personal information. Agency members may circulate the link to each of your service units and invite each service unit to submit user statistics accordingly on or before 14 March.
- Start preparing a list of service users requiring special assistance: Agency members are recommended to start preparing a list of service users who are unable to go to the specimen collection station independently or whose specimens cannot be collected based on normal specimen collection procedure. At this moment, Agency Members do NOT need to submit the list now. You may however need to be prepared that the government may ask for such a list soon for making special assistance for smooth and effective collection of specimens from those users.
- Our Council would also like to encourage Agency Members to contact your service users to alert them of the CUT, and understand and record their concerns and needs concerning CUT.
If you have any enquiry, please contact our colleagues of respective services:
Elderly Service：Ms Yvonne Mak (2864 2968, [email protected] )
Rehabilitation Service：Ms Agatha Tang (2864 2939, [email protected] )
Children and Youth Service：Ms Karlie Tang (2864 2958, [email protected] )
Family and Community Service：Mr Toby Yip (2876 2466, [email protected] )
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