The lack of public dental services has been criticized for a long time. In the early morning of today (24th), DAB Legislative Council member Zhou Haoding, together with the party's Tuen Mun branch chairman Wu Chengfeng and others, went to Tuen Mun Yan Oi Dental Clinic to learn about the overnight queues of the public.
Zhou Haoding said that the public dental services in Tuen Mun are insufficient. The clinic is only open to the public one day a week to provide dental services, with only 21 places. Residents will start queuing around 12 midnight until the early morning, and all-night queuing will also lead to spikes and affect environmental hygiene. and other issues, making the waiting list miserable.
Zhou Haoding pointed out that some elderly people on the waiting list reported that since private dental services are very expensive, they often cost more than a thousand dollars.
He believes that the government has the responsibility to improve the provision of dental services in Tuen Mun, including requiring the provision of dispatch services and increasing the number of days and hours open to the public, and increasing the supply of dental public places in Tuen Mun to ease the demand of residents and reduce queuing. Happening.
He went on to say that in the long run, the government should speed up the implementation of the arrangement to relax the services of overseas dentists in Hong Kong to alleviate the shortage of dentists.
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