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Latest news and updates on healthcare and hospitals in Hong Kong, including medical issues, the impact of the city's ageing population, coronavirus pandemic and seasonal influenza outbreaks on the health system.
Only four of the 28 lifts in the 34-storey new clinical building of the Queen Mary Hospital are working. Photo: Sam Tsang
Accidents and personal safety

Editorial | Hong Kong must address the systemic lapses behind hospital lift failures

Authorities must determine how multiple layers of checks failed to stop substandard construction work before it spiralled into a public scandal.

Biomedicine: Industry Trends

Can targeted sound waves transform treatment for pancreatic and brain cancers?

Prince of Wales Hospital

Patient who needed soft food dies after choking on regular meal at public hospital

Hong Kong

Doctors urged to test for chikungunya as Hong Kong detects first local 2026 case

Woman, 55, with no recent travel history reported as city’s first locally acquired chikungunya fever case this year.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya and the Zika virus. Photo: Getty Images
John Lee

Hong Kong leader vows accountability over faulty lifts at Queen Mary Hospital

John Lee orders report within a month over defective lift installation and says those responsible, including officials, will be held responsible.

Greater Bay Area

Data from Greater Bay Area residents to help improve healthcare policy: GSK

Executive says pharmaceutical company is investing in shared data infrastructure.

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Hong Kong

Supplier to end classroom lunch portioning at Sha Tin school after 39 fall ill

Danny Catering Service calls suspected food poisoning outbreak an ‘isolated’ incident linked to the school’s portioning arrangement.

The Centre for Health Protection said it was investigating a suspected food poisoning cluster involving 39 people. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong teen with rare disease creates AI avatar to ensure his story lives on

Chen Tsz-kin, 17, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, says that while life may come to an end, AI can allow his message of perseverance to continue.

Hong Kong society

39 pupils and staff fall ill after eating school lunches in Sha Tin

Authorities are investigating a suspected outbreak of food poisoning at Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School.

Hong Kong

Unvaccinated children, elderly face much higher risk of major flu complications

Hong Kong director of health cites data showing unvaccinated children and elderly are four to five times more vulnerable than vaccinated individuals.

A child wears a face mask outdoors on Friday amid Hong Kong’s summer flu season. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong society

Exclusive | Senior civil servant asked to resign over defective lifts at Queen Mary Hospital

But Architectural Services Department, where Tuesday Li served as a chief project manager, says her departure didn’t involve ‘forced resignation’.

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Tuesday Li previously served as a chief project manager at the Architectural Services Department. Photo: Development Bureau
Hong Kong

Over 60% of new dentists join Department of Health after mandatory internship

A consultant dental surgeon says the 46 new recruits have helped ‘significantly ease’ department’s manpower crunch.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong to strip logos and branding from cigarette packs starting in March

Only brand and variant names in prescribed font will be permitted, printed in standardised plain brown on packs under changes to existing law.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Medical Council rejects proposal on time frame for handling complaints

In written submission to Legislative Council, watchdog also rejects proposed reforms to its disciplinary sentencing, supervision and membership.

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Hong Kong’s Medical Council has rejected the government’s proposed reforms to its complaints handling and other procedures. Photo: Karma Lo
Queen Mary Hospital

Hong Kong reserves right to seek compensation over faulty hospital lift work

Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn says contractors must cover remedial costs after lift defects delay Queen Mary Hospital’s new block.

Queen Mary Hospital’s new block has been delayed by up to a year after defects left 24 of its 28 lifts unfit for use. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong

‘There are trade-offs’: how Hong Kong patients can use telemedicine wisely

Hospital Authority telehealth cases jump 33 per cent as private clinics tailor services for people with busy schedules.

Shenzhen

In Focus | Faster and cheaper: why Hongkongers are heading north for medical care

Lower costs and fast service across the border draw patients to Guangdong, leaving Hong Kong’s private doctors squeezed.

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Hong Kong

Just 4 of 28 lifts at Queen Mary Hospital block set for service once repairs done

Architectural Services Department says remaining lifts had suffered frequent operational instability and requires urgent follow‑up.

Clinical services have yet to move in to Queen Mary Hospital’s new block, as repeated lift faults have kept most of the elevators out of service. Photo: Karma Lo
Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police arrest 2 from clinic over sales of bogus ‘cancer vaccine’

Authorities seize more than 50 unregistered injections in investigation into product marketed as vaccine against more than 20 types of cancer.

Centre for Health Protection

Hong Kong students, at-risk residents can get flu jabs 1 week early this year

Centre for Health Protection says the government’s seasonal influenza vaccination programmes for 2026-27 will begin on September 17.

Wellness

Can Hongkongers trust smartwatches, or are they being misled?

Medical practitioners and fitness experts say wearable tech could support personalised, proactive healthcare as adoption hits 63 per cent among Hongkongers.

Illustration: Brian Wang
Hong Kong

Hong Kong launches first regional mediation platform for medical disputes

New Healthcare Dispute Resolution Centre online platform provides both virtual and face-to-face services for patients and doctors.

Centre chairman Samuel Kwok launches the first healthcare dispute resolution platform. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong society

Letters | Fix Hong Kong’s healthcare silos with link workers

Readers discuss bridging medical and social welfare, why Hong Kong must change, and an epic road trip.

Macau

No lead poisoning cases found among children after infant formula scare

Officials say all 237 children are healthy after consuming Friso batch flagged by Macau authorities.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

Chinese Medicine Hospital to start 24-hour inpatient services in December

City’s first dedicated traditional Chinese medicine hospital will also launch 10 additional special disease programmes within this year.

The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong was opened last December. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong

Hong Kong to offer free dental check-ups to preschoolers from September

More than 70 per cent of kindergartens join scheme bringing screenings and fluoride treatment to campuses.

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Conducting examinations in a familiar school environment will help ease young children’s anxieties, a dental consultant has said. Photo: Getty Images
Mainland China

Full fee waivers rise 20-fold to 280,000 after healthcare reform, minister says

Health chief defends higher charges for less urgent services in Hong Kong as full fee waivers increase from 14,000 since new regime began on January 1.

Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong physiotherapists face job crunch amid oversupply and budget cuts

Professional group expects glut as growing number of local undergraduates and practitioners returning from overseas enter stagnant job market.

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