The HKCSS worries about the impact of mandatory testing by staff in residential institutions, urging the government to send samples to employees

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Written by: Golden Chess

2020-12-01 13:41

Last update date: 2020-12-01 13:41

The Hong Kong Government issued a "Mandatory Testing Announcement" yesterday (November 30), requiring all employees of residential care homes and homes for the disabled to be tested for the novel coronavirus from December 1 to 14. The relevant test samples must not Collecting by yourself, offenders will face criminal liability.

The Hong Kong Council of Social Service proposed today (1st) that the industry generally believes that the implementation details of mandatory testing proposed by the government are inappropriate. It is worried that employees will be tested at community testing centers, which will increase the chance of infection and have serious impacts. The normal operation of the institution.

The HKCSS requires the government to follow the voluntary testing scheme, where employees take samples by themselves or the government sends personnel to the homes to take samples.

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According to government announcements, employees of institutions need to go to community testing centers to receive free virus testing services for combined swab samples from the nose and throat; or arrange at their own expense to receive the same type of testing provided by private laboratories approved by the Department of Health. Violators will be interviewed. Criminal liability.

The HKCSS pointed out that the organization is deeply concerned about requiring employees to go to the community testing center for testing. Tens of thousands of residential employees and contract service providers involved in the mandatory testing.

The industry fears that when employees go to a community testing center, they will only increase the chance of infection, which in turn will increase the risk of infection among residents.

In addition, the HKCSS believes that people who need to undergo compulsory testing can register on the spot. Therefore, it is difficult to predict the waiting time for testing at the testing center, and the number of testing places per day is also limited. It will seriously affect the normal operation of the institution, and even cause the institution to violate relevant laws and regulations due to lack of manpower.

As for requiring employees to undergo testing during vacations, although the government has stated that it will provide transportation allowances, the HKCSS stated that employees who go for testing due to work may be regarded as overtime work, which will in turn affect the manpower of institutions.

According to the HKCSS, the industry requires that the voluntary testing scheme should be followed, and the deep throat saliva self-sampling method should be used for testing. The outsourcing company will send a sufficient number of deep throat saliva testing kits to the institutions, and then send staff to discuss with individual institutions Return to the institution on the set date.

If you need to use a combined swab of the nose and throat, the home and related service providers can arrange a suitable sampling time, and the person who comes to the home to take samples must have professional abilities and skills to take samples for employees.

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