District 18 News
Author: Mo Jiawen
2021-02-23 16:55
The last update date: 2021-02-23 17:07
Starting today (23rd), the government is accepting online appointments for new crown pneumonia vaccination from five priority groups of citizens, including elderly people over 60 years of age. Organizations that assisted in registration for the elderly stated that the response after the announcement of the plan was more enthusiastic than expected. There was a traffic jam in the reservation system. “It’s like the iPhone was sold online before. Too many people robbed the phone and the network was paralyzed.” Only two cases could be successfully completed before noon. The date was postponed to early March. The group urged the government to remove Other methods other than online appointments can be opened to facilitate the elderly to apply.
Patients with long-term illnesses give up the application because they don’t know how to fill in the form
Community Organization Association Officer Lian Weiqiao said that since the government announced the launch of the free new crown vaccination plan and began accepting online appointment registration today (23rd), within a few days, about 20 elderly people asked to do online registration procedures on behalf of him. Starting from 9:00 this morning, log in to the official website to fill in personal information. The first two applicants only need about 10 to 30 minutes to complete the entire appointment process. However, when the third elderly person registers, click on the "Schedule Vaccination" button on the page By pressing the button, the waiting time for filling in the form has been greatly extended. It takes more than 40 minutes to enter the page for filling in personal information. During this period, the third elder is a chronic patient. The side effects column on the page mentioned "There is no control "Patients with chronic diseases" must be cautious about using vaccines.
Elderly people who fail to enter the registration page after spending 4 hours need to go to Kwun Tong for vaccination
Lian described that since noon, the entire reservation system seemed to be in a traffic jam on the Internet. He tried to make an online appointment for the fourth elder at about 12 noon. By 4 in the afternoon he had not successfully entered the registration page. The iPhone was sold on the Internet. Too many people grabbed the phone and the network was paralyzed.” After 5 pm, the appointment full screen popped up, even though he successfully entered the registration page earlier to register for two elderly people, he tried Vaccinations in many different locations have also hit the nails one after another. Finally, the elderly in Sham Shui Po were selected to the farther Kwun Tong area. The time was also postponed to the evening of early March. Only two cases can be completed. The remaining nearly 20 cases have been completed today. It could not be completed. Later, they will be notified by phone one by one. It is estimated that the vaccination date will be further extended.
Promote simplification of the provisions to facilitate the elderly to understand the content
He believes that it is a good thing to select the elderly as priority vaccination targets, but restricting everyone to register through the Internet makes the system overloaded. He urges to open up application methods such as email or written forms to relieve multiple people from logging into the online system at the same time At the same time, there are more than 20 kinds of side effects and clinical data listed on the page, which will also discourage the elderly. They believe that the provisions can be simplified to make the content easier for the elderly.
In addition, the Senior Citizens’ Housing Association stated that from 21st to 23rd of this month, the “frontline safety bell” service received 111 enquiries about vaccination. The main contents of common enquiries include how to make an appointment online, how to make an appointment for vaccination, and how to make an appointment. Where to vaccinate, and whether you want to know whether your physical condition, age, or medication is suitable for vaccination.
When the association receives inquiries from users about the vaccination plan, the staff will refer to the information on the official government website to answer.
If users have inquiries about personal health, the nurse team of the association will follow up, provide professional health advice, and remind users that if they feel unwell, they should seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Priority vaccination for five types of people
Hong Kong’s first batch of Coxing New Coronary Pneumonia Vaccines will be available to people in 5 priority groups starting today (23rd). Register for appointments online for priority vaccination. The first is medical institutions and staff involved in the fight against the epidemic, and the second is People aged 60 or above, and elders aged 70 or above can be vaccinated with up to two escorts. The third is the residents and employees of residential care homes for the elderly and disabled persons.
The fourth group is to maintain necessary public service personnel, such as frontline personnel handling waste, sewage, drainage, and market cleanliness, as well as personnel who frequently come into contact with the public, such as disciplinary forces and postal frontline personnel.
The fifth group is cross-border transportation, port, port staff, such as cross-border truck drivers, crew members, airport, wharf, land port personnel, cross-border vessel crew, cross-border fishermen, etc. It is expected that the five groups will be involved More than 2 million people are expected to be vaccinated in two months.
The vaccination sites include more than 1,500 clinics with more than 1,200 private doctors participating in the vaccination plan. It is expected that citizens will be vaccinated with Sinovac before mid-March, free of charge.
As for residents living in homes for the elderly, homes for the disabled and nursing homes, the government will arrange an outreach vaccination team composed of doctors and nurses to vaccinate residents.
The Chief Executive Carrie Lam said this morning that the COVID-19 vaccination plan began to accept online appointments from 0:00 in the morning. By 9:00 AM, 42,000 people belonging to the five priority vaccination categories had made appointments, and the response was quite enthusiastic.
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