The government will submit to the Legislative Council next Wednesday (25th) amendments to the legislation on residential homes, including raising the minimum manpower requirements and per capita area of residential homes, and increasing the duty hours of nurses and caregivers.
Li Boying, chairman of the Federation of SMEs International Elderly and Disabled Services Association, said on the radio program this morning (17th) that the relevant legislative amendments are similar to the recommendations of the previous SWD working group, but it is expected that some small homes with only 40 to 50 people live in them. In the face of increased expenditure and decreased income, it may be eliminated.
Li Boying: It is very difficult to hire people
Li Boying said on the radio program "Millennium Times" that the amendment to the ordinance can describe healthy competition. After the amendment, the minimum manpower requirement for residential care homes will be increased. Taking high-care residential homes as an example, there is one nurse on duty for every 60 residents, or one nurse for every 30 residents. The proportion of residents with at least one health worker on duty will remain unchanged, but the daily duty time will be increased from the current 11 hours to 13 hours, an increase of two hours over the current requirement. , "No one is willing to step on 13 bells for you."
Li continued to point out that based on the market price, the monthly salary for hiring a nurse is at least 20,000 yuan, and the monthly salary for a health worker is at least 18,000 yuan. Moreover, if you have to hire two, the hospital has a monthly recurring expenditure of 60,000 yuan a month, and it is also very difficult to hire people. Even though the unemployment rate is high under the epidemic, the industry thought it would be easy to hire people, but no one joined the industry. They admitted that it was related to too many work commitments, "changing diapers, feeding, treating wounds, etc., plus burying more records to do, a lot of reports. to fill."
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The bill proposes to complete the improvement of the per capita area of residential homes in eight years
He also expects that, in addition to increasing the minimum per capita floor area of residents, some residential homes with smaller scales, with 40 or 50 residents, will need to reduce the number of beds to meet the per capita area requirements, but on the other hand, they will need to increase Manpower, disguised spending increases but income decreases, and it is estimated that they will be eliminated because of this. Even if they hope to pay for extra beds, they will not be competitive.
The bill proposes to increase the minimum per capita floor area of residential care homes in two stages, and complete the transition in eight years. The current law only requires the per capita floor area of residents to be no less than 6.5 square meters. The bill proposes to allow existing high-level care homes. Residential homes have four years to achieve a per capita floor area of not less than 8 square meters, and eight years to meet the new requirement of 9.5 square meters per capita floor area, and eight years for existing medium and low care homes In line with the new regulations of 8 square meters of floor area per capita.
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