A recent surgical blunder involving a doctor mistakenly removing a patient’s fallopian tube instead of her appendix has cast doubt on Hong Kong public hospitals’ ability to effectively implement safety protocols and allocate manpower, advocates have said. Caritas Medical Centre revealed the blunder on Friday, which began with a 48-year-old woman being admitted for appendicitis…
Patients at Hong Kong’s public hospitals and clinics may need to pay more for their prescriptions, with authorities reviewing the current heavily subsidised HK$15 (US$1.92) fee for a 16-week supply of medicine. Without disclosing details of the fee adjustment review, Dr Simon Tang Yiu-hang, director of cluster services at the Hospital Authority, said the aim…
Hong Kong must improve its training of medical school students and supervision over intern doctors, a lawmaker and a community advocate have said after repeated blunders in the city’s hospitals involving misplaced feeding tubes. The pair made the call on Friday following Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital’s report that a laxative had been delivered to…