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https://scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2140196/what-hong-kong-needs-more-doctors-and-wider-health-insurance
Comment/ Letters

What Hong Kong needs: more doctors and wider health insurance coverage

Retirees seeking re-employment attend a job seminar, focused on the customer service industry, in Yau Ma Tei on January 15. There is huge demand for hospital services from the elderly. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

It is all well and good for the Hong Kong government to plan for more hospitals and beds, but, as mentioned by Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, the “long-term interest and people’s well-being” need to be considered.

With a huge shortfall of doctors in the Hospital Authority, how does the government plan to fill the long-standing vacancies in specialist and frontline services?