Panel set up to investigate hospital’s special treatment of lawmaker Tam Yiu-chung
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital announced on Friday night that it has set up a three-member panel, chaired by the hospital’s deputy chief executive of professional services, Dr Ho Hiu-fai.
The public hospital caught at the centre of a controversy after giving special treatment to prominent pro-Beijing lawmaker Tam Yiu-chung has appointed a panel to investigate the incident.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital announced on Friday night that it has set up a three-member panel, chaired by the hospital’s deputy chief executive of professional services, Dr Ho Hiu-fai.
The two other members are Philip Choi, Kowloon West Cluster’s general manager of nursing, and Emmanuel Kao, member of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s governing committee.
“The panel will complete the investigation and recommend improvement measures in four to six weeks. The report will be submitted to the Hospital Authority head office,” the hospital said in a statement.
The incident was first revealed on Thursday in a post on a Facebook page commonly used by public medics to share gossip. The post accused Tam, of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, of jumping the surgery queue for an operation. Tam was also allowed to rest in a staff-only unit.