Healthcare in Hong Kong

18 Apr 2013

Hong Kong's health authorities have insisted in the last decade that the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for young children is safe.

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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.

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Mainland mothers' emergency births rise

13 Sep 2011

Mainland women were mainly responsible for pushing up the number of non-local women giving birth in public emergency wards in the New Territories East by 79 per cent this year, the Hospital...

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Few eggs from Germany, says secretary

9 Jan 2011

Secretary for Food and Health Dr York Chow Yat-ngok says only 1 per cent of eggs in Hong Kong are from Germany. The Centre for Food Safety has approached Germany and the European Union for more...

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Minister kept in dark for 9 days over baby swap

19 Aug 2009

The health minister said he was upset he had not learned of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital baby mix-up until Monday morning - hours after the media were told and nine days after the blunder was...

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Hospital ready for winter admissions

15 Jan 2009

Prince of Wales Hospital had learned from last year's overcrowding crisis and had activated contingency measures two months ago to deal with the latest winter surge of illnesses, its chief...

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Spur in emergency calls when temperature below 12 degrees

Elderly people are 10 per cent more likely to press the personal emergency link button when the temperature drops below 12 degrees Celsius, according to a study by the Hong Kong Observatory...

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Paper on health-care financing due to be released soon

The government will release its long-awaited consultation paper on health-care financing by the middle of January, Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok said yesterday.

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Medication problems drop by one-third in hospital cluster

Seven public hospitals in New Territories East achieved a one-third decrease in problems with drug administration - such as distributing the wrong medicine or failing to give patients medicine...

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Meat wars

Beef supplies resumed after a dispute between traders and the sole cattle supplier from the mainland, Ng Fung Hong. Do you agree with market customers that Ng Fung Hong's monopoly should be ended...

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More mortuary slots planned after mix-up

The Hospital Authority will build 220 mortuary compartments after a body identification blunder at Prince of Wales Hospital in April.

The two bodies that were mixed up had been...

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Mortuary introduces bar-code system

The Prince of Wales Hospital has begun using a bar-code system in its mortuary to improve body identification after the Sha Tin hospital mixed up two bodies last month.

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