Health Care

Letters to the Editor, April 20, 2013

20 Apr 2013

I watched the US Senate hearings into the JPMorgan US$6.2 billion loss on credit derivatives. Banks justify their huge bonuses, saying that they are needed to attract talent. If the collection of...

3:25AM

Elderly forced to queue at 2am for dental care, concern group claims

10 Mar 2013

It's a long and painful wait and they don't get much sleep, but elderly people still queue up in the early hours of the morning at one of the few government dental clinics in the city.

5:52AM

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Private hospital's hefty bill leaves patient gasping

5 Mar 2013

When Bobbie-Ann Poulton went to the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital last year to stitch a gash in her foot, the bill came as a shock. The charges for the 30-minute procedure - including suturing for...

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Private hospitals aren't giving their patients important price details, review finds

5 Mar 2013

The city's biggest private hospitals are not providing their patients with comprehensive price information that can help them budget for simple operations. This emerged from a recent review by the...

4:45AM

Reforming mainland hospitals 'a tough job'

27 Feb 2013

Nearly four years after the mainland embarked on comprehensive reform of its health-care system, the health minister says changing public hospitals is the trickiest task he faces in the next three...

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Media China shifts into health care on rising demand

7 Feb 2013

Media China said a steadily increasing senior population and the government's supportive policies on the mainland would bring "golden opportunities" for health maintenance and retirement services...

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Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Privacy regulations are blocking data that could benefit health care in HK

As Hong Kong offices wound down yesterday at the end of a typically manic Monday, an important deadline passed quietly - unnoticed and unremarked upon by the vast majority of the city's population...

9:44AM

Ageing mainland faces challenges

A nursing home located near a diplomatic area in Beijing cares for 26 people aged between 60 and 92.

4:16AM

Psychologists say quacks are posing as counsellors

Impostors are passing themselves off as psychologists and the government is doing nothing to stop them, advocates for the profession warn.

7:01AM

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HEALTH

Unregistered counsellor ruined my life, says businessman

Former Hong Kong businessman Thanh Nguyen, 45, complained to the Sunday Morning Post about his encounters with a counsellor who provided no proof of his qualifications, overstepped his boundaries...

5:36AM

Inefficient health care systems fuel inflation, inequality

Building fair and efficient health systems is a key to expanding economies and making the world a more secure place, the dean of the world’s oldest school of public health said on Tuesday.

7:29PM

Hong Kong's private health care puts US to shame

I was recently blindsided by a health hurdle that sent me into a tailspin. My symptoms were sudden and mysterious, and there was the reality check: I have only minimal health insurance.

5:28AM

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