Lam’s health plans focusing on prevention
Congratulations to Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on being elected to be our next chief executive.
She is a good, decent and fun (yes, fun) person, and is definitely eminently suitable for the top job.
Expectations are high for this first woman leader of Hong Kong. Her biggest challenge will be creating greater harmony between the government, the Legislative Council and the people.
Focusing on Lam’s plans for Hong Kong: her social welfare and health election platform was the most ambitious and inclusive of all the candidates, surely worthy of support by all political parties.
It remains a puzzle why parties traditionally aligned to such issues did not give her more support. It can only be hoped that, for the benefit of the less fortunate in our community, these same parties now rally behind her social plans.
In my own field of public health, Mrs Lam understands the importance of prevention, not only in health terms but also in economic terms.
