Centre Offers New Hope for Incontinent Children Some 100,000 children and adolescents in Hong Kong are currently suffering from bedwetting, daytime urinary incontinence, constipation and faecal incontinence. The demand for continence services has been rapidly increasing, with over 2,200 new patients attending the various clinics at the Prince of Wales Hospital in 2001, a 76 per cent increase from the previous two years. Despite the high prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence, children with incontinence have various medical, social, and psychological problems that are often neglected by their parents. Services for sufferers are also very scarce in Hong Kong, mainland China, and most parts of Asia. To cope with this lack, the Faculty of Medicine has established the Hong Kong Children's Continence Care Centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital with the aim of providing holistic and state-of-the-art continence care for children from Hong Kong and the neighbouring region. A multidisciplinary team of paediatric surgeons, paediatric urologists, urotherapists, nursing specialists, and other health care professionals will provide a one-stop facility for comprehensive diagnostic procedures and for all forms of therapeutic intervention. The centre was officially opened on 6th December 2002 at the Li Ka Shing Specialist Clinic of the Prince of Wales Hospital.

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