A lab under the Hospital Authority (HA) has warned members of the public against eating wild plants without confirming the safety of the species first, pointing out the fact that some plants can cause ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
Five more people, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman, were confirmed to have contracted measles in Hong Kong, taking the number of cases this year to 61, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) und ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
Members of the Medical Council of Hong Kong, which oversees the registration of eligible medical practitioners in the city, have rejected all the measures proposed to exempt an internship requirement ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-04
Four more people were confirmed to have contracted measles in the city, taking the number of such cases this year to 40. Three of the four new measles patients work at the airport, while the fourth is ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
As of Thursday, the health department's Centre for Health Protection has received notification of 31 cases of measles infection in the city this year, already topping the full-year 2018 figure -- 15 - ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-29
The Hospital Authority (HA) pledged to hire more nurses and increase their pay in a bid to ease the burden of frontline healthcare workers amid the severe manpower shortage and surging patient numbers ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-15
South Korean police questioned two K-pop stars on Thursday as allegations of sex tapes, prostitutes and secret chat about rape rocked South Korea’s music world and hit entertainment stocks. The allega ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-14
The government will offer a new batch of flats for sale this year under the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), as it strives to meet the growing demand for subsidized units amid an increasingly unaffordable ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-13
Support staff of public hospitals have called off a protest after the Hospital Authority (HA) offered a pay rise of 8 percent. The workers' unions had planned a sit-in at the HA headquarters on Thursd ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-07
Airbus announced that it would stop making the double-deck A380 superjumbo jet in 2021, after having poured in billions into research and production of the world's largest passenger airliner. Initiall ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-19
During the peak flu seasons, public hospitals in Hong Kong are often overcrowded 100 percent or more, and the average waiting time for patients at the accident and emergency departments (A&Es) usu ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-15
Just like last year, public hospitals across Hong Kong have been overcrowded with patients before and after the Lunar New Year holiday due to the winter peak season of seasonal influenza. Severely ove ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
A public hospital in Tai Po has drawn the ire of Hongkongers after it made some unusual, temporary arrangements with regard to storage of human corpses in its mortuary. Online forums are abuzz with ch ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-31
Amid the outcry raised by our staggeringly overworked doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has unveiled a one-off allocation of HK$500 million ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-31
The government will allocate extra funding to the Hospital Authority (HA) to help place the agency in a better position to hire more people and reward overworked staff in the city's public hospitals w ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
As public hospitals try to cope with the serious shortage of manpower during the flu season, some of the workers are asking the government to address the “bullying culture” in these institutions. Abou ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
As doctors and nurses in public hospitals bewail their heavy workload amid the growing number of flu patients this winter, the Hospital Authority struggles to remedy the situation. So far they can on ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
