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FPAHK redevelops Yuen Long Building to provide enhanced service to the Northern Metropolis

The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong’s (FPAHK) Yuen Long Building on On Ning Road in Yuen Long has served the New Territories for over half a century. With financial support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, FPAHK today (3 May 2025) launched a redevelopment project to construct a new service building, which will be located on the site of the present building. The new building will provide quality integrated sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to the local community in the district.

In his speech at the launch ceremony, FPAHK’s Chairman cum Member of Yuen Long Building Redevelopment Project Steering Committee Mr Thomas Wong extended his heartfelt gratitude to The Hong Kong Jockey Club for its generous donation. He said, “FPAHK’s Yuen Long Building has been in service for more than 50 years. Over the years, all levels of the building have been gradually ageing. Since the 1990s, a number of large-scale renovations and increasingly frequent works have been carried out. Multiple damaged parts are found to be beyond repair. In view of this, we carefully considered the need to redevelop the building. We sincerely thank The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust for its generous donation to make this project possible.”

The ceremony centered on the “Past, Present and Future” of the Yuen Long Building. FPAHK’s two former Executive Directors, Professor Peggy Lam and Dr Susan Fan, were invited to review the past, followed by the current FPAHK Executive Director Dr Mona Lam, who chatted with current nurses as well as with a volunteer from Yuen Long Women’s Club about their experiences. There were also performances by the Women’s Club Community Drama Troupe and youth volunteers demonstrating the significance of the Association’s volunteer services. Miss Lina Yan, FPAHK’s Vice-President cum Convenor of Yuen Long Building Redevelopment Project Steering Committee, delivered a speech on the future plans for the new building. She said, “The new Yuen Long Building is expected to be in service as early as 2028. With ample space and furnished with enhanced facilities, the building will offer a wide range of quality integrated SRH services, which are expected to include clinic services, services supporting fertility health, such as pre-marital and pre-pregnancy checkups, a subfertility service, sex education, a Women's Club and community health education activities.”

The changes in FPAHK’s services over the years reflect the development of Hong Kong society and are closely associated with Yuen Long District. As early as 1958, FPAHK set up its first Yuen Long district clinic inside Pok Oi Hospital and then proceeded to set up other clinics in various districts in the New Territories. The current Yuen Long Building was completed and became operational in 1973 as FPAHK’s third service building in addition to its former Wan Chai Headquarters and Ma Tau Chung Branch. Apart from providing medical services, it also became the base for FPAHK’s promotional work in the rural areas of the New Territories.

As the population structure and service needs in the district changed, FPAHK set up the Youth Health Care Centre in 1991 and the Yuen Long Women’s Club in 2000 in the Yuen Long Building. In 2005, the “FPA Anita Mui Health Centre” funded by the Anita Mui “True Heart” Charity Foundation was set up in the Yuen Long Building to promote regular women’s health checkups and to commemorate the renowned artist Ms Anita Mui, who passed away at a young age after a battle with cervical cancer.

In her closing remarks, FPAHK’s President Professor Hextan Ngan thanked guests for their presence and said, “The Policy Address put forward the Northern Metropolis Development Strategy. Yuen Long District will be a major district administration area covered by the ‘The Northern Metropolis’. We hope that FPAHK’s new Yuen Long Building will provide a diverse variety of medical, counselling and education services in sexual and reproductive health to the residents of Yuen Long District and the Northern Metropolis, catering to their needs across their different stages of life.”

Due to the redevelopment project, the Yuen Long Building’s services will be as follows: clinic services will be temporarily relocated to a temporary clinic in the same district and the Yuen Long Women’s Club will be temporarily relocated to the Sheung Shui Women’s Club. Further announcements will be made to keep service users abreast of the latest service rearrangements.

Officiating guests of the Launch Ceremony of FPAHK Yuen Long Building Redevelopment Project: (from left) Mr. Thomas Wong, Chairman, FPAHK; Prof. Hextan Ngan, President, FPAHK; Ms. Christina Or, Senior Liaison Officer, Yuen Long District Office; Miss Wing Lee, Charities Manager, The Hong Kong Jockey Club; Mr. Chung Chau-wah, Chairman, Yuen Long Town Centre & Rural East Area Committee; Miss Lina Yan, Vice-President and Convenor of Yuen Long Building Redevelopment Project Steering Committee, FPAHK; Dr. Mona Lam, Executive Director, FPAHK

Design concept for the exterior of the new Yuen Long Building

Existing Yuen Long Building

Yuen Long Building in 1973