Maternal and Child Health Centres
Child Assessment Service
Clinical
Genetic
Services
Newborn Screening

Way to Diagnose

Maternal and Child Health Centres

Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHCs) provides an integrated child health and development programme to promote the holistic (physical, cognitive, emotional and social) health and wellbeing of children. The core components of the integrated programme are parenting, immunisation, as well as health and developmental surveillance. For the Health and Developmental Surveillance, It consists of a series of routine reviews conducted by health professionals, designed to achieve timely identification and referral of children with health and developmental problems. These include a physical examination of the newborn child, periodic monitoring of the child's growth parameters, and formal hearing and vision screening tests at specific ages. Developmental surveillance is performed in partnership with parents through anticipatory guidance, eliciting parents' concern and observing the child.

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Child Assessment Service

Child Assessment Service provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, rehabilitation prescription, interim child and family support as well as review evaluation at critical developmental transition points. A Public health nurse will conduct interview to understand the physical, intellectual, behavioural and learning issues of the child by a preliminary interview. After the pre-assessment case conference, The multi-disciplinary team will perform assessments and formulate rehabilitation plan for the child The team will also arrange necessary referrals, interim support and review consultation for the child.

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HKASF is pleasure to provide assistance for enquiry, screening and referral to the Child Assessment Service,
contact us by phone/whatsapp at 5125 8111 or email at info@hkasf.org for further details.

Clinical Genetic Services

Departmental of Health, Clinical Genetic Services, provides the first medical genetic laboratory accredited by the Hong Kong Accreditation Service in 2009.Through chromosome analysis and molecular genetic testing for over 100 different genetic diseases, which can identify the underlying genetic defects of various genetic diseases in patients and their at-risk family members. Such information is useful in prevention of intergenerational transmission of genetic diseases and can facilitate personalized management of genetic diseases. In the past 15 years, Clinical Genetic Services have successfully identified the causes of genetic diseases for almost 5000 families.

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HKASF is pleasure to provide assistance for enquiry, screening and referral to the Child Assessment Service,
contact us by phone/whatsapp at 5125 8111 or email at info@hkasf.org for further details.

Prenatal DNA screening

We promote the adoption of standard prenatal screening tests in Hong Kong. There are dozens of rare genetic diseases that can today be detected through a series of basic diagnostic tests. When applied to newborns, they can help identify diseases early on, which can make an enormous difference in treatment options and outcomes. Given the often severe and life-threatening nature of such conditions once symptoms emerge – which can be at anytime from birth through the onset of adulthood – we believe is it critical to support efforts to detect and treat them as early as possible.

HKASF has negotiated with a DNA laboratory in Hong Kong, provides prenatal DNA screening test for suspected patients, Angelman Syndrome families and relatives. We are pleasure to provide assistance for enquiry, screening and referral to the Prenatal DNA Screening Service, For more details, please contact us by phone/whatsapp at 5125 8111 or email at info@hkasf.org