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Care for the underprivileged through “Community Care Chinese Medicine Service” 

28 Jan 2025

 

Committed to caring for the well-being of underprivileged members of the community, the School of Chinese Medicine of HKBU, in collaboration with Sino Group and the Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation, jointly launched the “Community Care Chinese Medicine Service” programme. This initiative offers free Chinese medicine consultations and essential medications to members of the Community Living Room, with an aim to enhance their health and quality of life.

The “‘Community Care Chinese Medicine Service” was launched in mid-August 2024, with the first phase implemented in the Sham Shui Po and Hung Hom Community Living Rooms. A team of Chinese medicine practitioners from HKBU offers in-person consultations in the Community Living Rooms on a weekly basis, providing personalised health advice and Chinese medicine prescriptions tailored to each member's lifestyle, psychological condition, and body constitution. Medications are delivered directly to the Community Living Rooms for members’ convenience.

Professor Alex Wai, President and Vice-Chancellor of HKBU, said, “The School of Chinese Medicine has an extensive Chinese medicine clinical network. With the donation support by Sino Group and the Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation, we can further expand our service locations, bringing our professional Chinese medicine services closer to the community and supporting the grassroots families. This initiative embodies HKBU’s spirit of helping the public with its expertise and benefiting more people in the community.”

In support of the HKSAR Government’s Pilot Programme on Community Living Room, Sino Group has implemented the Chinese Medicine Service through collaboration with HKBU and provides venues in Sham Shui Po and Hung Hom for the programme. It has been well received by the community as it helps members to improve their daily health care habits under the attentive guidance of medical practitioners.

 

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Professor Alex Wai, President and Vice-Chancellor of HKBU (second right); Ms Nikki Ng, Director of Philanthropy of Sino Group and Director of the Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation (second left); Professor Feng Sun, Director and Professor of Practice of the Clinical Division of School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU (first right); and Professor Junjun Yang, Executive Associate Director and Professor of Practice of the School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU (first left), hope to bring high-quality Traditional Chinese Medicine services to the community through the “Community Care Chinese Medicine Service” programme.
The “Community Care Chinese Medicine Service” programme provides free outreach consultations and Chinese medicine prescriptions to members of the Sham Shui Po and Hung Hom Community Living Rooms.
Sino Group invites the Chinese medicine team from HKBU to various work locations to offer free consultations, check-ups with a four-diagnostic instrument, and health talks, addressing the health needs of frontline employees.