The Department of Health (DH) announced today (January 24) that the North District Maternal and Child Health Centre (MCHC) will come into operation next Monday (January 27), making it the second MCHC in the district and strengthening health services for children and women.
"The new MCHC will be located on the seventh floor of the North District Community Health Centre Building at 3 Wai Wo Street, Sheung Shui. Its service hours are from 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5.30pm from Monday to Friday, and from 9am to noon on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month that are not public holidays. Its services include child health service, cervical screening service and postnatal service. The DH has already contacted people who have made appointments for services at the North District MCHC to remind them of the appointment time and the address," the DH spokesman said.
The DH's MCHCs provide health promotion and disease prevention services for children from birth to five years and women at or below 64 years of age.
Together with the North District MCHC, there are 29 MCHCs in operation in the 18 districts throughout Hong Kong. For more information, please visit the DH's website.
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