Tuen Mun Hospital

Decision to remove boy's oxygen tube 'not wrong'

11 Apr 2013

Removing the breathing tube from a teenage patient shortly after he had undergone neck surgery was not the wrong decision, a medical expert told an inquest into the boy's death yesterday.

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Procedure new to doctors, court told

3 Apr 2013

The senior anaesthesiologist involved in surgery on a teenager who later died has admitted asking doctors inexperienced in tracheotomy to perform the emergency operation on the boy.

4:22AM

Medic 'didn't mislead on fatal Tuen Mun surgery'

27 Mar 2013

A medic whose teenage patient died after surgery on his neck did not call the procedure "almost zero" risk, a doctor told an inquest into the death yesterday.

6:07AM

Mother told fatal surgery was safe

26 Mar 2013

The mother of a teenage boy who died after neck surgery had been told the operation was "almost zero" risk by medics days before.

Cheng Miu-wah, 43, told the inquest into her son's death...

4:50AM

UK's Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre opens first overseas branch in HK

15 Mar 2013

A British cancer network known for its centres' architecture has opened its first overseas branch in Hong Kong with a design fitted to the city's limited space and Chinese culture.

5:54AM

Medic jailed for molesting teen at Tuen Mun Hospital can still practise

5 Sep 2012

The Medical Council yesterday ordered a doctor to be supervised while he works, almost three years after he was convicted for molesting a patient in a public hospital.

2:29AM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

City Digest

Democrat accused of sex scandal dies

6:03AM

Letters

Power firms should give information

All countries are suffering from the effects of inflation.

5:59AM

Poorly ranked hospitals strained

Over-work and a shortage of manpower are probable reasons for some hospitals having a higher mortality rate than others for patients who have had emergency surgery, the Hospital Authority says....

5:52AM

City Digest

Second man dies from taxi accident injuries

3:48AM

Don't pass buck for errors, says doctors' union

Doctors say the Hospital Authority, by disclosing blunders publicly in a 'ruthless' manner, is shifting oversight responsibility to frontline staff and ignoring deeper management problems.

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2:47AM

Review of Hospitals after blunder

The city's medical chief has called for a committee to review management in public hospitals after the seventh medical blunder of the year at Tuen Mun Hospital came to light.

2:06AM