According to the figures from the Hospital Authority (HA), Hong Kong has lost 500 full-time doctors in public hospitals and 2,600 full-time nurses from April 2021 to April 2022, reaching 7.9  percent and 9.5 percent loss rate of doctors and nurses respectively.
Seeing the severe loss of medical professionals, the authorities have been trying to introduce more doctors to Hong Kong including those from mainland China.
Recently, the HA said on Sept. 7, it was notified by the Medical Council of Hong Kong, that it has confirmed and approved the applications of three more non-locally trained doctors for limited practice registration. Among them, two are new applications and the other is an application renewal. They will serve in the internal medicine, ophthalmology, and radiology wards in public hospitals….