Elderly Hongkongers will be able to use healthcare vouchers for medical services at two hospitals in mainland China’s Zhuhai later this week under a government subsidy scheme, part of a plan to expand the coverage of the project across the border.
The Hong Kong government on Monday announced that the Elderly Health Care Voucher Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme would be launched at Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Zhuhai People’s Hospital on Thursday.
The latest additions will bring the number of hospitals on the mainland that accept the city’s healthcare vouchers to 11.
Currently, more than 1.78 million elderly people in Hong Kong are eligible to use government healthcare vouchers.
As in Hong Kong and other cities in the bay area, the vouchers cannot be used for inpatient services, prepaid healthcare procedures or day surgery.
They also cannot be used solely for the purchase of goods, medication, medical equipment or products, or cash redemptions.
