With the arrangements made by Personnel Wing, a team of 36 Chinese medicine practitioners from the Hong Kong Alumni Association of the Southern Medical University offered free services at Police Headquarters and the Mong Kok Community Hall on November 16 to officers taking part in Operation SOLARPEAK. The services represented the practitioners' support for officers working day and night on the frontline.
On that day, the practitioners offered medical consultation, acupuncture or osteopathy massage to a total of some 300 officers from different formations and units. In the morning, Director of Personnel and Training Chau Kwok-leung, Assistant Commissioner (Personnel) Lau Chi-wai, and Chief Superintendent (Personnel Services & Staff Relations) Ng Suk-fun visited the consultation area at Police Headquarters and expressed their gratitude to the Chinese medicine practitioners. Extending their regards to the officers waiting for services, they learned that many officers did not seek medical attention immediately after getting hurt in order to remain at their posts.
In fact, as early as on November 2, the zealous Chinese medicine practitioners offered free medical consultation to some 170 frontline officers at Police Headquarters. They also offered professional services to frontline officers at Mong Kok Community Hall from 8pm to 10pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout last month, showing their big support for police.
