Register the baby at the Maternal and Child Health Centre
The Maternal and Child Health Centres run the free child health service: the whole Hong Kong Childhood Immunisation Programme, developmental checks and feeding advice from birth to five. Checked against fhs.gov.hk on 22 September 2026.
- Who it applies to
- Everyone having a baby in Hong Kong
- On your timeline
- Paperbump schedules this between 7 days and 4 weeks after the birth
- Official source
- fhs.gov.hk
- Last checked
- 22 September 2026
What else to know
Register at the centre for your district as soon as the birth certificate exists and bring it, because the free service is for children with a Hong Kong birth identity document; without one every visit is charged at the non-eligible rate. The first jabs — BCG and the first dose of hepatitis B — are given in hospital at birth. The next visit is at 1 month, for the second hepatitis B dose, and not at 2 months as people often assume; at 2 months come the first doses of DTaP-IPV and pneumococcal vaccine. The schedule then runs at 4, 6, 12 and 18 months.
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