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Hong Kong has about 1.9 doctors per 1000 people, which is the same ratio as in Taiwan. [10] Of the over 14,600 doctors in Hong Kong, about 60% work in private practice and the remaining 40% work in the public service. [11] The majority of doctors in Hong Kong, graduated from one of the 2 local medical schools.
In order to better address Hong Kong's healthcare needs, there have been calls for the creation of a third medical school in Hong Kong. [17] Other healthcare discipline programmes are dispersed among other universities which do not host a medical faculty.
[2] [obsolete source] Because of its early health education, professional health services, and well-developed health care and medication system, Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 88 for females and 83 for men, [3] which is the highest in the world, and an infant mortality rate of 1.169 deaths per 1,000 births, the lowest in the world.
The report suggests that without health care reforms the spending on health care in China will increase to 9% of China's GDP by 2035 which is an increase from the 5.6% of China's GDP in 2014. [34] With substantial urbanization, attention to health care has changed.
Rural cooperative medical systems provided subsidized health care to rural residents. [2] One aspect of this system was barefoot doctors, who received some training and then delivered primary care medicine to those who needed it. [2] Barefoot doctors were a good contribution to primary health systems in China during the Cultural Revolution.
This changed with reforms to Hong Kong's healthcare system in the late 1980s. In October 1987, Governor David Wilson officially announced the government's intention to establish a new, semi-independent Hospital Authority , which would be administered by a new Hospital Services Department (HSD). [ 1 ]
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In September 2022, Henry Fan Hung Ling, chairman of the Hospital Authority, lobbied for a "significant expansion" of traditional Chinese medicine used in Hong Kong's public healthcare. [18] Days later, the Hospital Authority released information from a study it conducted, showing that traditional Chinese medicine could be used to cure long ...