Doctors ‘probed by Medical Council’ for helping at Occupy Central first-aid stations

A doctor who helped at a first-aid station in Admiralty during the 79-day pro-democracy Occupy sit-ins revealed he and other medical workers came under investigation by the medical watchdog for possible professional misconduct due to their participation in the protests.

Dr Ray Leung Tse-hang, who worked at a public hospital, was cleared in the investigation – which he was not aware of until the Medical Council, which licensed and disciplined doctors, told him its conclusion.

Complaints that triggered the council’s checks suggested medical professionals should not be participants of social movements outside their work. The complainants said “they should have sufficient rest outside their work in order to ensure public safety”.

Leung wrote about the hitherto covert checks on his Facebook page ahead of the one-year anniversary of the protests on September 28.

“History will decide whether the students’ social movement was right or wrong,” he wrote. “But as a medic, saving lives is our mission. And this is always the right thing to do.

“This is Hong Kong. This is our home. There was a group of medics who could not stand just sitting there in front of the television and watching our people getting hurt without offering any help.”