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Written by: Deng Yinglin
2020-02-21 13:34
Last updated: 2020-02-21 13:40The Hong Kong Government will publish a new budget next Wednesday (26th). The joint focus on the right to development of children (Kuan Xuelian) announced the results of the survey today. According to the survey, 80% of the parents surveyed think that the waiting time for public hospitals is too long and private medical services are expensive The group was worried that the children at the grassroots level did not seek medical treatment in a timely manner, and urged the government to provide medical assistance to children at the grassroots level. Seek medical attention, or have dental care, eye examination, and glasses.
In addition, the government's free dental care services for children are only applicable to primary school students. The Guanxue Federation urges the government to expand the plan to primary and secondary schools and kindergarten students in Hong Kong to raise public awareness of dental care.
Concerned about the right to development of school children (Guan Xuelian) held a press conference today. (Provided by respondents)
Concerned about the right to development of school children, the joint questionnaire survey of "2020 Children's Medical Service Use and Medical Voucher Policy" was conducted from December 2019 to January this year. Inviting familiar parents were asked to complete and received a total of 203 questionnaires. The total monthly income of more than 75% of the respondents' families is not more than 20,000 yuan.
About 44% of the children in the surveyed families were sick, and more of them had skin diseases, severe vision problems, and respiratory diseases. Overall, about 80% of the respondents think that the waiting time of the public hospital is too long, the private medical services are expensive (75.4%), and the government's funding for children's medical services is insufficient (64%). Nearly seven adults are worried that they will delay treatment and delay their illness. .
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More than 95% of the respondents in the survey hope that the government will set up a child medical voucher with reference to the elder medical voucher policy to reduce the family's financial burden, and half of the parents urge the government to improve and review the existing student health services. Guan Xuelian suggested that the government issue a medical certificate of 2,000 yuan per year to primary and secondary schools and kindergarten students, covering private Chinese and Western medicine, dental health care, children's eye examination and spectacles; in the long run, increase medical funding and expand services, including the addition of general and night consultation Quotas are convenient for parents to bring their children to seek medical treatment.
In the survey, 10% of the children of the respondents had toothache in the past year, and more than 70% of the parents hoped that dental care could be extended to kindergartens and middle school students. (Profile picture)
Promoting the expansion of dental care for school children to benefit primary and secondary school and kindergarten students
In addition, the current dental care service for children of the Department of Health of the Government only provides annual oral examinations to primary school students free of charge. This means that kindergartens and secondary school students cannot benefit. In this survey, about 10% of the children of the respondents had toothache in the past year, and more than 70% of the parents hoped that dental care could be extended to kindergartens and middle school students. Guan Xuelian urged the government to expand the children's dental care plan so that the kindergarten to secondary school students in Hong Kong will have a basic dental examination once a year to raise public awareness of tooth protection.
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