Pressure piled on Hong Kong’s Medical Council over need for foreign doctors, with lawmakers calling for powers to be revoked

Pressure was piling on Hong Kong’s doctors’ licensing authority on Saturday to address a chronic manpower shortage at public hospitals, with lawmakers across the political spectrum calling on officials to bypass the body by changing the law to make it easier to import foreign physicians.But the city’s health minister called for patience until the Medical Council met again on May 8 to vote on proposals to exempt overseas-trained doctors from local internships.The president of Hong Kong’s biggest…