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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.
[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 Chinese economist, Yang Fan, wrote in 2001 that lip service being given to the old socialist health care system and deliberately ignoring and failing to regulate the actual private health care system is a serious failing of the Chinese health care system.
The threat from non-communicable disease is worsened by behaviors like sedentary lifestyles, high alcohol consumption, and smoking as well as air pollution. 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.
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 ]
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 ...
The China Health Care Corporation or CHC Healthcare for short was co-founded in 2005 by American business executive Charles A. Elcan and his father-in-law, Thomas F. Frist Jr. [1] [2] whose father was the founder of Hospital Corporation of America. Charles Elcan served as its president. [3]
In October 2022, the Health Bureau was reported to be in discussions with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to finalize details for the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in November 2022, where the Health Bureau was discussing an option for COVID-19 positive guests to leave Hong Kong if leaving on private jets, but would not be allowed ...