Doctors, nurses have social duty to make sacrifices for city, Hong Kong leader says on plan to fight shortfall

Doctors and nurses should make sacrifices for the city and see their jobs as a social responsibility, Hong Kong’s leader has said while defending his plan to plug a manpower shortfall at government hospitals by forcing professionals to serve a certain period in the public sector.

Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday it was the government’s responsibility to find ways to solve manpower woes in the public healthcare sector.