An elderly home that has been serving residents leftover food will be immediately investigated by the Social Welfare Department, a spokeswoman said yesterday.
The announcement came after a former staff member told a radio phone-in programme that the kitchen mixed leftover food and turned it into porridge for the next meal.
'Whatever's left of the soup for lunch, they add water to it and make it a full new bowl as the dinner,' she said.
The department spokeswoman refused to identify the home.
District Councillor Kam Nai-wai, a member of the department's inspection team, painted a gloomy picture of the state of care in some homes.
'Some elderly take meals on the corridor, some residences are so small that the elderly barely do anything outside their beds. The government should consider revising the ordinance to raise minimum requirements on private homes,' said Mr Kam.