Professor Fan Sheung-tat denies using resignation to bargain for more resources
A renowned liver transplant pioneer who resigned from the University of Hong Kong two weeks ago has decided to stay.
Fan Sheung-tat, chair professor of the department of surgery at University of Hong Kong, said he made the decision because he had been 'touched deeply' by letters from patients and people asking him to stay.
He also insisted that he was not using his resignation to bargain for more resources.
Medical sources said Professor Fan, 55, was dissatisfied with the university extending the contract of department head John Wong, 64, who has remained at his post four years past his retirement age of 60.
A medical source said the two 'just cannot get along with each other'. 'Fan always feels he has not been given appropriate recognition in the department,' the source said. 'He has been very unhappy for a long time.'