Hong Kong medical sector lawmaker Dr Pierre Chan urges public hospitals to boost manpower by reducing meetings and administrative chores

A lawmaker for Hong Kong’s medical sector on Monday said the city’s public hospitals need to cut back on meetings and administrative duties after a survey found that heavy workloads were pushing many doctors away from the understaffed facilities.Dr Pierre Chan, the medical sector lawmaker who commissioned the poll, said about 60 per cent of the public hospital doctors who responded said they were unhappy with their workload.To better utilise the limited human resources, he urged public…