Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam promises to try to secure treatment for rare disease sufferer

Hong Kong’s chief executive has promised a paralysed 23-year-old woman with a rare disease that she will try to get her, and others with her condition, access to a potentially life-saving new drug. In a surprise move, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor met with members of a rare disease patients group who rallied outside the Chief Executive’s Office in Admiralty on Sunday to call for more support from officials. The medicine is the only hope for Josy Chow Pui-shan, who was born with spinal...