Medical Council member says look to Singapore as a solution for Hong Kong’s crippling doctor shortage in public hospitals

Hong Kong should look to Singapore as a model for how foreign-trained doctors are allowed to practise without being subjected to unreasonable criteria, a member of the city’s medical watchdog said on Monday.Professor Fok Tai-fai, a member of the Medical Council, also said Hong Kong’s so-called limited registration system for overseas specialists was a “dead end” because it restricts foreign-trained doctors to practising at a limited number of facilities in the city and for a limited time. He…