The number of appointed members on a doctors’ watchdog in Hong Kong would be scaled back in a latest bid by the government to break the reform deadlock with medical practitioners, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Tuesday.
The Medical Council, which licenses and disciplines doctors in the city, has been criticised as a “closed shop” that tends to protect professionals in the field. It has also been panned for its slow handling of complaints.
A reform proposal...
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