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last updated:
23 September, 2024
Families can book a jab at maternal and child health centres for children aged six months to under two years from Wednesday morning. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hongkongers urged to get flu jabs ahead of predicted case surge when mercury dips

Hospital Authority to launch seasonal influenza vaccination programmes this week, including school and care home outreach projects.

Hong Kong workers/labour rights

Migrant workers to return to Hong Kong site after pay dispute resolved

Hong Kong workers/labour rights

Migrant workers seek mainland police help over labour dispute in Hong Kong: union

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong minibus driver arrested after pedestrian killed outside shopping centre

Man, 66, detained on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death over fatal accident outside Plaza Hollywood shopping centre.

The scene of the accident in Diamond Hill. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at United Christian Hospital. Photo: Facebook/Candy Ng
Crime in Hong Kong

Knife-wielding gang ties up 4 tourists in Hong Kong party room, steals HK$110,000

Police say victims robbed of cash and valuables during four-hour ordeal in Kwun Tong, with one man forced to make online bank transfer.

Accidents and personal safety

2 injured outside Hong Kong public hospital construction site after road floods

Footage online shows people stranded on cement block outside Kwun Tong site after water pipe bursts during amber rainstorm warning.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong must establish ‘high quality’ new medical school to train top talent

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau says the new school has to ensure students fulfil the standards of the local licensing council

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The Post understands that the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is discussing establishing a medical school with Imperial College London. Photo: May Tse
From our archives

When 6 Hong Kong construction workers died after a lift cable snapped

The tragic accident happened at Telford Gardens, then under construction, when the workers took the lift rated for 20 people up to the roof and the motor malfunctioned, causing the cable to snap

Hong Kong courts

2 Hong Kong doctors fail to recoup legal costs of abandoned manslaughter case

Court rules Lam Chi-kwan and Chan Siu-kim put themselves under suspicion by neglecting to prescribe antiviral drug to patient who later died.

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong man, 77, rescued after falling out of window, dangling upside down

Man suffered injuries to feet and face after falling while hanging laundry, police say.

A 77-year-old man hung from his foot after falling while hanging laundry in Tsui Ping North Estate, Kwun Tong. Photo: Handout
Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong man drives delivery truck into sea at wholesale fish market

Driver accidentally steps on accelerator pedal while goods are being loaded; later passes police breathalyser test.

Kwun Tong Wholesale Fish Market on Tung Yuen Street in Yau Tong. Photo: Google
Crime in Hong Kong

Hongkonger attacked with knife outside MTR station after dispute over smoking

Scuffle breaks out after man asks another to stop smoking at a minibus terminus outside exit A2 of Choi Hung MTR station, Post learns.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong’s Yuen Kwok-yung shares journey to becoming disease expert in new book

My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey is set to be released in mid-July and charts leading microbiologist’s forays into nature, space and public health.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong man with knife arrested after 2 injured at Kowloon shopping centre

Police called to scene at Kai Tin Shopping Centre in Lam Tin after reports of a knife attack on Thursday afternoon.

Kai Tin Shopping Centre on Kai Tin Road in Lam Tin. Photo: Google Maps
Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police hunt 2 knife-wielding men after triad-linked attack

Suspected 14K triad member, 51, injured in knife attack in early hours of Monday, source says.

The 51-year-old victim was targeted when he left his vehicle at a car park outside King Kung House at Choi Wan (II) Estate. Photo: Google Maps
Hong Kong society

Editorial | Death of Hong Kong hepatitis B sufferer a reminder to put patient safety first

Two liver transplants could not save a Hong Kong mother after doctors failed to prescribe her the antiviral drugs she needed to protect herself from the virus.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong man charged over allegedly wounding woman after throwing 2 acid bottles

Police say two bottles containing what appeared to be drain cleaner fell from Hon Pak House at around 1.23pm on Tuesday, injuring 73-year-old woman on neck, hands.

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Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong doctor says he did not add to prescription in liver failure death

Nephrologist Chan Siu-kim tells Coroner’s Court he did not consider use of an antiviral drug usually needed for liver problems such as hepatitis B.

Chan Siu-kim (left) and Lam Chi-kwan (middle), doctors at United Christian Hospital, who are involved in an inquest into the death of a woman they both treated. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong doctor in liver patient death case blames being ‘distracted’

Lam Chi-kwan admits he did not prescribe antiviral drug as he was distracted by ‘phone ringing’ and ‘people entering the room’ to see him.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong hospital reviews staff conduct after patient dies amid lack of checks

United Christian Hospital says it found male patient only had blood pressure, heartbeat and blood oxygen level checked once after being admitted.

Accidents and personal safety

Safety belt ‘may have saved’ Hong Kong worker in fatal scaffolding collapse

The 51-year-old woman was standing on the 15-by-eight-metre scaffolding when it fell from a high-rise building.

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Bamboo scaffolding on a building at the city’s former airport runway collapsed, killing two workers and injuring three others. Photo: Sam Tsang
Accidents and personal safety

2 die, 3 injured after scaffolding collapses at Hong Kong construction site

Two women killed and three other workers injured after scaffolding collapse at luxury flat construction site at old airport.

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Scaffolding collapsed at a luxury housing development. Photo: Sam Tsang
Accidents and personal safety

2 Hong Kong minibuses and truck collide, injuring at least 6 people

Four men and two women hurt when vehicles crash on Kwun Tong Road.

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong’s construction sector ‘must improve safety culture to reduce deaths’

Thomas Ho, Construction Industry Council chairman, says 70 to 80 per cent of fatal industrial accidents this year caused by mentality and habits of workers.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Contractor apologises over surgical light safety scare at Hong Kong hospital

Medical tech company Getinge has also been suspended from tendering for contracts until next September after falling hospital light left worker with shoulder injury.

The surgical light crashed down in an operating theatre at United Christian Hospital in February. Photo: Facebook
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong mum died month after 2 disabled sons found dead in flat: authorities

Hospital Authority says woman died on morning of October 21, several weeks after sons, aged 53 and 55, were discovered dead inside their home.

The woman died at United Christian Hospital on October 21 after her health deteriorated several weeks earlier. Photo: Dickson Lee
Accidents and personal safety

5 injured in collision between Mercedes-Benz and Hong Kong minibus

Two vehicles collide on Sin Fat Road outside private housing estate Laguna City in Kwun Tong just after 11am.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Doctors recruited abroad for Hong Kong’s hospitals mostly junior level

Hospital Authority chairman Henry Fan says jobs have been offered to 130 non-locally trained doctors, and more than 80 have signed contracts.

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