A database of patients’ post-operation wounds and automated medicine dispensing cabinets are among six measures Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority will adopt after a series of medical blunders last year, including one in which a patient found a piece of gauze left in his scrotum two months after surgery. Authority chief executive Dr Tony Ko Pat-sing…
The first of two 10-year development plans to upgrade Hong Kong’s healthcare infrastructure will be unaffected by the government’s budget deficit, the outgoing head of the local public hospital system has said. Hospital Authority chief executive Tony Ko Pat-sing also said on Sunday that a penalty system to clamp down on medical blunders would not…
Hong Kong authorities will freeze the pay of senior managers at public hospitals where medical blunders occur as part of reforms to hold staff more accountable, with an official saying firing employees is not an option given a manpower crunch. Henry Fan Hung-ling, chairman of the Hospital Authority, also said on Saturday that the organisation…