Campus Digest

BOC–HKBU Chinese medicine community scheme offers free rehabilitation services to low-income stroke patients

29 Jul 2021

 
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Professor Alexander Wai (4th left), Mr Jimmy Sun (centre), Dr Lee Ching-yee (4th right), Dr Cheung Wai-lun (3rd right) and other HKBU representatives attend the launch ceremony.
Mr Cheung Chun-hoi, Assistant Professor of Practice of the School of Chinese Medicine at HKBU (1st right) and Ms Tai Lo-wing hoi, Service Director of HKSKH Welfare Council Limited (2nd left) introduce the BOC–HKBU Chinese Medicine Community Stroke Prevention and Rehabilitation Scheme.

 

HKBU and the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (HKSKH) Welfare Council have received a generous donation from the Bank of China (Hong Kong) (BOCHK) for the three-year “BOC–HKBU Chinese Medicine Community Stroke Prevention and Rehabilitation Scheme”. The Scheme provides free Chinese medicine rehabilitation treatments to 500 eligible low-income stroke patients, and it also offers free preventive treatments and tracking assessments to 1,200 people who have a medium to high risk of having a stroke.  

 

The launch ceremony for the Scheme was held on 29 July on the HKBU campus. Dr Cheung Wai-lun, Project Director of the Chinese Medicine Hospital Project Office, the Food and Health Bureau; Mr Jimmy Sun, General Manager of the Institutional Business Department, BOCHK; Professor Alexander Wai, President and Vice-Chancellor of HKBU; and Dr Lee Ching-yee, Director of HKSKH Welfare Council Limited, officiated at the ceremony.

 

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