Twelve private psychiatrists have offered immediate mental health care to at least 400 children from low-income families who would otherwise have to wait up to three years to be treated publicly.
Variety, a charity, also aims to ease the pressure on public hospitals, which face a rising demand for psychiatric services from youngsters, with the number of cases seen by the Hospital Authority surging by 52 per cent from 2011 to 28,800 last year.
About 16 per cent of children in Hong Kong...
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