Monday, July 17, 2006
Hong Kong is affluent enough to invest more in health care, a former Hospital Authority chief managerial William Ho Shiu-wei believes.
From a doctors' union leader to head of the power and now head executive of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals - one of Hong Kong's oldest non-government organizations - Ho's circuitous career path in a lot of ways reflects the comparatively recent revolution in Hong Kong health care.
In his time as chief of Hong Kong's public hospitals, he knew the elation of being a pioneer medical reformer and the depths of torment during the SARS outbreak in 2003 - when Ho, like many of his frontline staff, contracted the disease.
And while poor facilities and camp beds set up in the aisles of overfull public hospitals might now be just a bad memory, Ho said the city faces a latest but even graver problem - the sustainability of the system.
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