A patient is being transferred from Queen Elizabeth Hospital to St Teresa's Hospital, a private hospital in Kowloon City, in July 2017 as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in the public hospitals. Photo: Dickson Lee
A patient is being transferred from Queen Elizabeth Hospital to St Teresa's Hospital, a private hospital in Kowloon City, in July 2017 as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in the public hospitals. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
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Why Singapore is more attractive to overseas doctors than Hong Kong

Dr Daniel Poon says the licensing requirements in Hong Kong put off even overseas-trained doctors of local origin while the pay package for short-term specialist contracts is not internationally competitive

Daniel Poon, MD

Updated: 3:04pm, 25 Jun, 2018

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A patient is being transferred from Queen Elizabeth Hospital to St Teresa's Hospital, a private hospital in Kowloon City, in July 2017 as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in the public hospitals. Photo: Dickson Lee
A patient is being transferred from Queen Elizabeth Hospital to St Teresa's Hospital, a private hospital in Kowloon City, in July 2017 as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in the public hospitals. Photo: Dickson Lee
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