Private Hospitals

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...

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Agency offers to beat 'zero birth' ban for mainland mums

31 Dec 2012

Mainland agencies who help pregnant women from across the border to reserve maternity bed spaces in Hong Kong claim they will still be able to do so after the "zero-birth quota" comes into effect...

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Private hospitals may pursue Unicef programme for breastfeeding

14 Dec 2012

The city may get its first private hospitals with a Unicef "baby-friendly" accreditation in a few years, after they take steps to steer new mothers away from feeding their infants milk formula,...

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City Digest, December 10, 2012

10 Dec 2012

72-year-old man dies in fire at home

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Wong Yuk-man questions worth of free beds in private hospitals

9 Dec 2012

A lawmaker said the free beds offered at private hospitals may as well not exist, after the health chief admitted that other charges at the facilities meant the poor were unlikely to ever use them...

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Letters to the Editor, December 9, 2012

9 Dec 2012

Shelf space over comfort at supermarkets

Any would-be cashier in a supermarket and other retail outlet needs to speak English to get the job. But it's not a stringent test because if they...

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

Updated 2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

Updated 2:53AM

Handover blamed for private hospitals not providing free beds

Officials blamed the 1997 handover as well as missing documents for some private hospitals having not been required to set aside 20 per cent of their beds for the needy.

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Private hospitals not watched closely enough, minister says

Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man admitted yesterday that the Department of Health "has not fully exercised its power" in monitoring private hospitals.

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Briefs, November 25, 2012

The row between ATV and Citi Telecom (CTI) has intensified, after ATV executive director James Shing Pan-yu accused CTI head Ricky Wong Wai-kay of obtaining confidential information from ATV.

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Letters to the Editor, November 25, 2012

Dam will not disrupt flow of Mekong

I refer to your editorial ("Laos risking decades of co-operation with Mekong dam project", November 17).

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Lessons learnt from hospital's land use

The latest report of the Director of Audit describes how a luxury residential development came to be built on land granted for a hospital in Sha Tin when, according to a government estimate, the...

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Patients' group urges transparency over hospital complaints

The government should push private hospitals for greater transparency in handling patients' complaints, and prevent them from "operating behind closed doors", a concern group has urged.

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