Hong Kong should open third medical school sooner amid Sino-US tensions: expert
Former head of Hospital Authority Anthony Wu says new institution must embrace technology and prepare to train talent soon
Hong Kong should strive to prepare its third medical school more quickly amid Sino-US tensions, a former head of the Hospital Authority has said, as he highlighted the importance of the new institution in embracing technology and nurturing talent.
Anthony Wu Ting-yuk, who was chairman of the Hospital Authority from 2004 to 2013, told the Post that an interim plan should be put in place to offer clinical training to medical students from the new school, instead of waiting about a decade for a proposed teaching hospital to be ready in the Northern Metropolis.
“We should seize on technology and build a brand new medical school … which focuses on the training in technology,” Wu said in an interview earlier this month.
Hong Kong is pressing on with establishing its third medical school after Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu threw his support behind the plan in his policy address in October.
Earlier this month, the government sent out invitations to the city’s eight publicly funded universities for them to submit proposals for the new school, with interested institutions required to submit their plans by mid-March.
The University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong run the city’s two existing medical schools.
