Patients waiting more than three years for specialist care in Hong Kong, as doctors call for new department to manage public-private sector relationship | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3009592/patients-waiting-more-three-years-specialist-care
Dans les années 1980 et encore 1990 Hongkong se présentait comme une combinaison entre une état de providence réduit au stricte minimum et un capitalisme sauvage qui promettait à chacun to get rich quick . Actuellement cet amalgame est en train de s’écrouler sous les coups de la concurrence des régions de Shenzhen et Shanghai. Les membres les plus faibles de cette société en paient le prix.
Association of Private Medical Specialists wants government to create new medical aid department. Survey of 200 professionals finds poor working conditions and long hours causing doctors to quit Hospital Authority
Published: 8:30pm, 9 May, 2019, updated: 9:47am, 10 May, 2019
Private doctors want the government to create a new department to manage their cooperation with public hospitals and shorten waiting times for specialists services, which for some patients in Hong Kong is now more than three years.
A study conducted last month by the Association of Private Medical Specialists of Hong Kong also highlighted the frustration doctors faced in the public sector, citing an unsatisfactory work environment and lack of time as reasons for leaving the Hospital Authority.
According to Dr Samuel Kwok Po-yin, the association’s president, hospital congestion, long working hours and a lack of doctors all contributed to problems faced by the medical sector in the city.
“The biggest problem in the medical sector is the waiting time for stable new case bookings at specialist outpatient clinics,” Kwok said.