The number of non-locally trained doctors working at Hong Kong’s public hospitals will reach 300 by the end of the year, including about 70 under an exchange programme with mainland China and Macau, health authorities have said.
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The Hospital Authority chairman Henry Fan Hung-ling said on Monday that officials had spoken with their mainland and Macau counterparts about recruiting more doctors for the second phase of a healthcare professionals exchange scheme.
He said there were currently 180 non-locally trained doctors at the city’s public hospitals.
“If everything goes smoothly, we expect, at the end of this year, the number of these doctors will increase from 180 to 300,” Fan noted.
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The first batch of incoming healthcare professionals under the scheme comprised 10 doctors, 70 nurses and three traditional Chinese medicine experts from Guangdong province, who arrived in Hong Kong in April of last year and have already left.