Hong Kong security chief Chris Tang says minor surgery on injured elbow won’t affect work
- Secretary for security stayed two nights in hospital, does not indicate if he intends to go on leave
- Treatment comes less than three weeks after city leader Carrie Lam was admitted to hospital with fractured elbow
Hong Kong’s security chief said minor surgery he had undergone for an elbow injury did not affect his work, after he was discharged from hospital on Saturday morning.
Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung, 56, was the second senior official in under three weeks to require hospital treatment after city leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor received care for a fractured elbow in mid-October.
Tang told reporters on Saturday: “I accidentally scratched my [left] elbow last week. There was minor inflammation a few days ago. It swelled on Thursday so I went to the doctor after work.”
He spent two nights at St Teresa’s Hospital in Kowloon City.
Tang said he received minor surgery to drain pus from the inflammation, and on the doctor’s advice stayed in hospital on Thursday night. He returned to work on Friday but was admitted to hospital again at night to clean his wound and for follow-up checks.
He did not answer reporters’ questions on whether he would go on leave in the coming days.
Posting a photo of herself on social media at the time with her entire right arm bandaged and in a sling, Lam, 64, wrote that many of her friends had told her the accident effectively offered “an unstoppable chief executive” a good opportunity to take a rest.
Lam returned to work on October 25.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to return to work on Monday after injury
Additional reporting by Nadia Lam
