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3 Making healthcare information available and accessible to ethnic minority people ( Nepalese people ) living in Hong Kong
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  1. Lachhemi Rana
  1. Hong Kong

Abstract

Nepalese people consist of part of the 8% which is the total percentage of ethnic minority living in Hong Kong. Many Nepalese do not understand English and most of the elderlies are illiterate, depriving them the access to basic health information and also the health system provided by the Hong Kong government. Many Nepalese construction workers are unable to make informed career choices and are often inflicted with long term occupational health disease, while others are missing out many government health schemes like; health care vouchers for the elderly, free influenza and pneumococcal vaccines for children and elderly, free occupational health check up for the construction worker etc. These problems were assessed when I had personally worked and participated in different Non-governmental organisations’s projects, workshops, programs and by even working in private clinic in Hong Kong for more than half a decade. For the solution, I had applied for the ‘Community Involvement Broadcasting service’ (CIBS) project that is run by Radio Television Hong Kong under Hong Kong Government. I produced many health related radio programs in Nepalese language after going through nationwide competition and also with votes from community people. This allowed people to have access to the health information in Nepali language as all the programs are recorded in the podcast format and are accessible to their dispense. A surge in number of queries about health related information was noted in many local NGOs. After completion of each program, a survey was carried out among the crew members and was submitted to RTHK. A separate survey was done with the listeners and guests.The problem still remained with the usage of the radio app on the mobile devices of the elderly group who were always in need of assistance. We can achieve better health for the community by taking the leadership role, looking for available solution and involving people of the community.

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