Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor speaks at the opening ceremony of the Hospital Authority Convention 2021 on May 3, 2021. - HKSAR GOVERNMENT)
HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): A bill that allows Hong Kong permanent residents having received medical training overseas to practise in Hong Kong will be submitted to the Legislative Council in late May, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Monday (May 3).
The government has been urged for years to relax the city’s stringent medical registration requirements to allow non-locally qualified doctors to practice in Hong Kong in order to ease the pressure on public hospitals.
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