The number of torture claimants and asylum seekers granted waivers of non-emergency medical fees by the Hospital Authority has soared threefold in the past four financial years to at least HK$40.8...
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13 Jun 2013
Ailing asylum seekers and torture claimants still appealing against their unsuccessful applications to remain in the city say they are turning to hospital emergency services because they cannot...
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2 Jun 2013
It would serve the many new housing developments planned for the site of the former airport, and would answer a longstanding complaint of Wong Tai Sin residents: that the densely populated...
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29 Apr 2013
The Housing Authority has in fact undertaken various waste recycling initiatives in recent years and is committed to reducing waste in its public housing estates through different waste recycling...
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22 Apr 2013
I refer to John Shannon's letter in which he stated that the decision in the foreign domestic helpers' right of abode case was unjust. I don't think the Court of Final Appeal's decision can be...
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14 Apr 2013
The only doctor who can carry out sex-change operations in Hong Kong public hospitals is due to retire in two years, triggering concern that patients who want life-altering surgery may be left in...
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A priority policy should be in place not just for education, but for other services, including welfare, because people living locally contribute to the government budget as Hong Kong taxpayers.
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Hong Kong's public hospitals are excellent
Amy Wu, in her column ("Health benefits", January 24) extols the value and the standard of the private health care system in Hong Kong, going as...
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Public hospitals want to extend a guideline that allows chronic and critically ill patients to choose death rather than being revived by emergency procedures.
It is proposing that the...
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A woman has lashed out at a public hospital after her three-year-old son died in December, three months after he was first admitted with pneumonia.
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A married doctor was yesterday found guilty of molesting three nurses at a public hospital.
Magistrate Ko Wai-hung adjourned sentencing to next month, pending professional reports, after...
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The government no longer considers private health care as one of the new "pillar industries" envisaged by Donald Tsang Yam-kuen to support long-term economic growth when he was chief executive in...
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