Doctors recently recruited overseas for Hong Kong’s stretched public hospitals mostly junior level, authority boss reveals
- Hospital Authority chairman Henry Fan says jobs have been offered to 130 non-locally trained doctors and more than 80 have signed contracts
- He also reveals that some healthcare professionals heading to the Greater Bay Area on exchanges can only stay there for weeks because of staff shortages
Most non-locally trained doctors recruited recently to help ease a manpower crunch in Hong Kong’s public healthcare system are at a junior level, the Hospital Authority’s boss has revealed.
Authority chairman Henry Fan Hung-ling also said some healthcare professionals who were heading to the Greater Bay Area on exchanges would stay there for weeks only due to the serious staff shortages.
Fan, who was giving a rundown on the latest staffing situation in public hospitals following an authority board meeting on Thursday, said the body had issued job offers to 130 non-locally trained doctors, and more than 80 had signed contracts.
While most were recruited in Britain and Australia, where the authority held hiring exercises earlier this year, some were from countries such as Malaysia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Ireland.
Nine arrived in the city in September and had already started working, while another 10 were expected to take up their posts in one to two months.
