Hong Kong Social Welfare Department: More than 700 mainland caregivers complete support in Hong Kong

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] During the fifth wave of epidemic in Hong Kong, due to the shortage of local medical staff, the Mainland not only sent the medical rescue team, but also many nurses to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Social Welfare Department (hereinafter referred to as the "Social Agency") said on the 11th that more than 700 temporary mainland caregivers have completed the contract, and some of them were hired in Hong Kong.

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According to the Hong Kong "01" report on the 11th, the Socialist Agency has previously hired a total of 762 temporary caregivers in the Mainland, and 17 of them have been hired by the Hong Kong local hospital through the "supplementary labor plan". Other caregivers have returned to the Mainland. Data show that the basic salary of these caregivers is about 31,000 Hong Kong dollars per month.

The Social Affairs Department stated that in order to cope with the fifth wave of new crown pneumonia, a total of 762 temporary contract nurses were hired in March this year in March this year, and the contract was 3 months. After receiving the training, they were appointed by the Social Affairs Office to help the middle -aged and elderly people and disabled people. A spokesman for the Social Affairs Department thanked the mainland caregiver to come to Hong Kong in a long distance when the local epidemic was severe, providing care services for the elderly and disabled people in the diagnosis, alleviating the pressure of the local hospital's shortage of manpower.

The spokesman said that some caregivers joined the nursing industry in Hong Kong after the contract period. Of the 762 caregivers, a total of 17 people were hired by the local courtyard through the "supplementary labor plan" and continued to work in Hong Kong. Li Hui, a member of the Hong Kong Safety Affairs Committee, is an operator of a nursing home. She said in an interview with Hong Kong media that she had successfully hired more than ten mainland careers directly hired by the Social Affairs Department to convert them into the name of entering foreign workers. When he arrives at the hospital, the monthly salary is the same as the general overseas to protect the workers, and the same is about 14,000 Hong Kong dollars. She mentioned that these mainland caregivers have experience in taking care of the elderly in Hong Kong and are willing to go to Hong Kong to work. If they can "turn around" into the hospital as a caregiver, they will not only help solve the problem of the people of the hospital The intermediary company recruits fast and convenient. (Li Yao)

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