On the 10th March 2011, CHIC held a health talk on ‘Blood Disease’ at Little Yang Sing restaurant. The talk was given in Cantonese by Patrick Chu (Professor in Hematology) who explained the most common types of blood disease including the different types of anemia, white blood cells (leucocytes and neutrophils), platelets and their causes and symptoms.
This was followed by Dr Edmond Lau (Hematologist) who gave a brief presentation on leukemia and its treatments. This health talk attracted 40 people from the local Chinese community.