The 1,000 nursing and rescuers from the mainland arrived in Hong Kong within 2 to 3 days, and the Secretary for Labour and Welfare of Hong Kong: the only condition is to know Cantonese, the more the merrier, if more than 1,000 people are interested, they will consider increasing, each time 1020 people arrive in Po!
Under the outbreak of hundreds of nursing homes and homes for the disabled in Hong Kong, a large number of staff were infected with the epidemic and were left under shortage, and the Government recently announced that SWD will urgently pilot the direct employment of 1,000 temporary contract caregivers in the Mainland for a period of three months.
The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Law Chi-kwong, revealed today (1st) that the recruitment operation is under way, hoping that the first batch of "rescuers" will arrive in Hong Kong within two to three days, but will not have a batch of 1,000 people coming to Hong Kong, but will arrive in Po each batch or each time, and then receive 3 days of training, and then go to isolation facilities or temporary care centres to take care of the elderly.
When asked about the recruitment situation and conditions, Luo Zhiguang bluntly said that there are no specific conditions, the only one is that "it is important to know how to speak Cantonese", and coupled with the severe epidemic situation in Hong Kong, recruitment is difficult.
Luo Zhiguang said on the Commercial Radio program this morning that half of the more than 1,000 residential buildings have confirmed cases, and many of them have been infected with the epidemic, the situation is quite serious, and before the epidemic, the average vacancy rate of funded and private residential buildings had reached 25%, so the shortage of manpower was even more serious. Luo Zhiguang also pointed out that at present, almost all the hospitals with confirmed cases are "isolated in situ", but if the patients are not effectively separated, it is easy to cause in-hospital transmission.
Luo Zhiguang stressed that the elderly who have been isolated in the hospital have long been prepared for the epidemic, including arranging for isolation at the AGI, but "the speed is not as fast as the epidemic is buried".
In terms of manpower arrangements, SWD is urgently piloting the direct employment of 1,000 temporary contract caregivers in the Mainland for a period of three months. Luo Zhiguang hopes to learn about the number of temporary contract caregivers recruited within 1 to 2 days, and the first batch of personnel will arrive in Hong Kong within 2 to 3 days, and then undergo 3 days of training: "Most of them are inexperienced, training is not complicated, but how to feed and so on must be learned." Also because of the training required, it is difficult to carry out 1,000 people at a time, so the Mainland caregivers will arrive in Hong Kong in batches: "The more the merrier, if more than 1,000 people are interested, they will consider increasing, and 1020 people will arrive at each time."
