Hong Kong’s public hospitals face a chronic shortage of nurses with 200 vacancies at present, the health minister has revealed as the city is caught in the thick of the winter flu season.
On Saturday, Secretary for Food and Health Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee said government hospitals had only been able to recruit 1,800 nurses to fill 2,000 positions.
The new figures were announced after the Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staff, the city’s biggest nurses’ group, ran a full...
↧