COVID-19 Open Letter to HKSAR Government
Hong Kong is at present facing the utmost critical, challenging and difficult times in its history. Time is running out fast and our healthcare system is at the edge of collapse.
We are not experts in COVID-19, but a group of doctors with our hearts stationed in Hong Kong. We hope to contribute to our Government and policy makers in combating the pandemic.
Firstly, we thank and appreciate all the efforts from leaders as well as allied workers in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are two vital moves that we strongly feel should commence without further delay:
(1) Immediate launch and execution of COVID-19 vaccination in the senior citizen group, in particular the jabs at all institutions.
(2) Currently, face to face lessons in schools are on a hiatus. We instead should use this period of time to return groups of students to school at a designated date and time to receive their jabs without further delay.
These moves will significantly increase the low vaccination rates in these two age groups. By doing so, we hope to further increase the protection coverage so that our community can soon walk out and return to a greater sense of normalcy in life.
HKDU will consider anything possible to help in the fighting of this pandemic. Examples include setting up of outreach medical team from primary care doctors to give jabs at designated places, distribution and collection of COVID-19 test kits at designated district health centres, modification of third dose post vaccination observation time to avoid congestion.
We love Hong Kong and we are ready to help.
Yours faithfully
Hong Kong Doctors Union