Chunghwa Post is considering building elderly care centers in underused spaces at some of its post offices nationwide.
The policy proposal was revealed on Tuesday, when the state-run company announced an increase in postage for mail and packages.
Minister of Transportation and Communications Hochen Tan (賀陳旦) had asked the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to study the possibility of including post offices in the nation’s long-term care system.
Department of Post and Telecommunications Director-General Wang Ting-chun (王廷俊) said that Chunghwa Post researched available options and briefed the ministry on them.
The company’s preliminary plan is to focus on underused spaces in post offices to build elderly care centers through partnerships with the private sector, he said.
Chunghwa Post, which has 1,300 offices nationwide, has been asked to conduct a comprehensive survey of utilization at each post office, Wang said.
The company must also research the long-term care service needs in each region, he added.
Regulations also need to be amended to allow the postal company to enter the long-term care business, Wang said, adding that the company would submit a report on related issues and how it plans to address them.
Chunghwa Post owns Taipei-based Postal Hospital, the operation of which it has outsourced to a private contractor, he said.
The hospital’s orthopedics department is particularly popular among elderly patients, as the hospital’s director is an orthopedist known for his knee replacement surgery expertise, Wang said.
The company plans to build a second facility on an adjacent plot housing the hospital’s parking lot, Wang said, adding that the new hospital would serve mainly elderly patients.
Chunghwa Post also plans to build a nursing home on a property in New Taipei City’s Sindian District (新店), he added.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching