PTU News Reporter

In October, the Education Bureau issued a notice to all secondary schools, inviting sponsoring bodies of schools to hold live streaming sessions of the Basic Law seminar, letters issued by the Education Bureau included also reply slips, demanding schools to reply by a specific date. IP Kin Yuen, representative of the HKPTU in Legislative Council had received complaints from school principals on the pressure felt by them and the sponsoring bodies of schools. When questioned by the media, the Secretary for Education, Kevin YEUNG, changed the line and claimed the reply of the notice is optional. …… 閱讀全文 →

IP Kin Yuen

Chief Executive Carrie LAM proposed to replace the current practice of passing bills individually in the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council by establishing a 12-billion Hostel Development Fund in her Policy Address, simplifying procedures in supporting the University Grant Committee (UGC) to subsidize the building of students’ dormitories in universities. This is undoubtedly a welcoming news in the post-secondary education sector, but the question remains: what are the reasons to the constant shortages of dormitory vacancies? Was it due to the meticulous Legislative Council procedures, or was it an internal error made by the government? …… 閱讀全文 →

近日強生集團的隱形眼鏡回收行動喚醒了香港隱形眼鏡使用者的關注。由於該公司的電腦化物流管理，所有授權經銷商都被立即通知受影響的批次。相關批次已被追查和處理，將受影響的程度減至最低。由於現時隱形眼鏡只是自願註冊為醫療器材，是次事件帶出隱形眼鏡必須強制註冊為醫療器材的重要性。

然而，經網上或化妝品商店購買隱形眼鏡的消費者就沒有那麼幸運。這類商店大多於韓國、日本、泰國等地區進口。由於隱形眼鏡尚未被強制註冊為醫療器材，所以商店可以將隱形眼鏡作為商品進口，並無需處方即可出售，儘管隱形眼鏡是整日佩戴於角膜上的器材。

按照維基百科的定義：「隱形眼鏡是直接放置在眼睛表面上的鏡片。隱形眼鏡被認為是醫療器材以矯正視力，或出於化妝或治療的原因來配戴。」

香港是全球近視比率最高的地區之一，約有75％的人口受影響。隱形眼鏡是一種常見的矯正方式。對於香港市民來說，隱形眼鏡必須歸類為醫療器材，不應該讓市民自行去格仔鋪或以網上購物等方式直接購買，應該先經眼科視光師進行驗配，以確保市民配戴適當處方的隱形眼鏡，才能保障市民的良好視力和眼睛健康。如配戴不正確弧度的隱形眼鏡會影響透氧度，令角膜受損，引致細菌感染、甚至潰瘍，造成永久視力受損。  請透過您的眼科視光師進行定期檢查，以確保良好的視力和眼睛健康。