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The Chinese University of Hong Kong announced Wednesday it has set up Asia's first children continence care center providing a holistic and state-of-art service for children, locally and internationally.
A multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals will provide children a one-stop facility for comprehensive diagnostic procedures and for all forms of therapeutic intervention, the university said.
The center is expected to open on Friday.
Doctors from the university said that urinary and faecal incontinence are very common clinical problems in children in HongKong, in China's mainland and in many developed countries.
It is estimated that in Hong Kong over 100,000 children and adolescents are currently suffering from bedwetting, daytime urinary incontinence, constipation and encopresis.
The demands for the services have been huge, the doctors said. There were over 2,000 new patients attending the various continence care clinics in 2001, they added.
(Xinhua News Agency December 4, 2002)
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