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Hong Kong/ Health & Environment

Just what the doctors ordered: Hong Kong's senior public hospital medics to get 3pc pay rise after rare high-profile protest

Hospital Authority board approves higher wages for around 2000 senior medics

The Hospital Authority's chief executive Leung Pak-yin (left) and chairman John Leong speak up on the pay rise. Photo: Edward Wong

Senior doctors at public hospitals have won their fight for the same 3 per cent pay rise other senior public servants get, with the Hospital Authority bowing to pressure from the biggest protest by medical workers in eight years.

The 28-strong board of the authority voted "unanimously" yesterday to grant its 2,000-odd senior public doctors the salary demand, its chairman, Professor John Leong Chi-yan, said. The vote came a day after 1,300 doctors staged a sit-in at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei.