{"id":427935,"date":"2025-12-06T03:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:46:15","slug":"hong-kong-to-focus-on-mental-health-support-after-fire-seek-smoking-ban-at-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427935\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to focus on mental health support after fire, seek smoking ban at sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong authorities will make mental health support for people affected by the Tai Po blaze a priority in the aftermath of the tragedy, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has announced, as the government said it intended to push for a blanket ban on smoking at construction sites.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Lee said that not only the residents of Wang Fuk Court, but the entire community could move out of deep sorrow with proper mental health support.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEveryone is experiencing this fire,\u201d he said. \u201cThe whole of society is emanating sadness. I am concerned about those affected and the mental health services and support for all of society, and how to improve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee said the demand for psychological support was so strong that one NGO had received 600 calls for help at one stage, and authorities had put in place other support measures for the affected residents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"City leader John Lee holds a press conference at the Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre on Friday. Photo: Dickson Lee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f098999d-8ca9-4ebc-a298-2b932153bfa2_afccf9bc.jpg\" title=\"City leader John Lee holds a press conference at the Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre on Friday. Photo: Dickson Lee\"\/>City leader John Lee holds a press conference at the Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre on Friday. Photo: Dickson Lee<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He also promised to take action at the first Legislative Council meeting following the election on Sunday and push through systemic reforms to plug loopholes in the construction sector\u2019s practices, which has come under heavy scrutiny in the aftermath of the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong authorities will make mental health support for people affected by the Tai Po blaze a priority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[199091,199095,199094,210,199090,8464,199093,143980,199089,517,50,28069,15715,199092,199088,67,132,68,192265],"class_list":{"0":"post-427935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-advisory-committee-on-mental-health","9":"tag-chief-executive-john-lee-ka-chiu","10":"tag-disaster-victim-identification-unit","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-hk","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-lam-ching-choi","15":"tag-legislative-council","16":"tag-lo-chung-mau","17":"tag-mental-health","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-post-traumatic-stress-disorder","20":"tag-scmp","21":"tag-secretary-of-health","22":"tag-tai-po-fire","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-wang-fuk-court"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115670574643500884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}