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Professor claims HK Government may train disciplined offiers in coronavirus test sampling
With the outbreak of the Wuhan Pneumonia hitting the one-year -mark, most of the specimen sampling works in #HongKong have sofar been conducted by medical personnel.
Yet Prof. David SC Hui, Professor of Respiratory Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
revealed in his interview with the #RTHK, that the government's #FoodandHealthBureau was exploring the possibilities of temporarily transferring personnel from the Immigration Department and the Customs and Excise Department for specimen #sampling training work.
He then clarified later, that the transfer was mainly aimed to help with case tracing, instead of sampling.
Hui said, it was the most ideal to have medical personnel handling specimen sampling work at the moment. It was believed the services were mainly in charge of case tracing work, and that the chances of them being involved in specimen sampling ‘are slim’. But he added, the possibility of the services being trained to handle specimen sampling should not be eliminated under a huge outbreak, in which private laboratory and government sampling services reached saturation.
Source: Stand News #Jan2
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Professor claims HK Government may train disciplined offiers in coronavirus test sampling
With the outbreak of the Wuhan Pneumonia hitting the one-year -mark, most of the specimen sampling works in #HongKong have sofar been conducted by medical personnel.
Yet Prof. David SC Hui, Professor of Respiratory Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
revealed in his interview with the #RTHK, that the government's #FoodandHealthBureau was exploring the possibilities of temporarily transferring personnel from the Immigration Department and the Customs and Excise Department for specimen #sampling training work.
He then clarified later, that the transfer was mainly aimed to help with case tracing, instead of sampling.
Hui said, it was the most ideal to have medical personnel handling specimen sampling work at the moment. It was believed the services were mainly in charge of case tracing work, and that the chances of them being involved in specimen sampling ‘are slim’. But he added, the possibility of the services being trained to handle specimen sampling should not be eliminated under a huge outbreak, in which private laboratory and government sampling services reached saturation.
Source: Stand News #Jan2
#Sampling #CovidTest #DisciplinedOfficers