Enhancing public-private partnerships could help alleviate pressure on Hong Kong emergency services in public hospitals, an advocacy group and a doctor have said, with the latter warning the government’s suggestion that patients should be charged depending on how urgent their conditions were may lead to disputes.
Dr Luk Che-chung, a former chief executive of the Hospital Authority’s Hong Kong East area, on Monday proposed that some larger private hospitals could take on patients who had been waiting for a long time, such as those categorised as “semi-urgent” or “non-urgent” in…
