Chief executive to appoint fewer Hong Kong Medical Council members in bid to break reform deadlock

The chief executive will give up his power to appoint four members to the Hong Kong doctors’ watchdog under a new proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock over its composition, a government source said on Wednesday. But the Medical Association refused to accept the proposal and threatened to stage a sit-in if the government did not increase the number of elected members on the Medical Council. Hong Kong government seeks to reform the city’s doctors watchdog. But what is the Medical...