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May 19, 2021
published at 1:45 AMReuters
Medical staff transfer a patient suspected as a Covid-19 case at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong.
Reuters
Hong Kong’s plans to let non-locally trained doctors practise in the city to tackle a shortfall of medical staff in the public sector moved forward on Tuesday (May 18), with the bill to be read in the legislature on June 2.
Health Secretary Sophia Chan said Hong Kong faces a serious shortage of doctors compared with international standards, and the crunch was expected to severely deteriorate in the medium term. The per capita doctor ratio is two doctors per 1,000 people, compared with other economies.we are lagging far behind, Chan told a news conference.
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This is despite having ample supply of Covid-19 vaccines.
Inoculation inertia, triggered by a healthy dose of vaccine scepticism and lack of trust in the government, is likely to get amplified as the city s pandemic situation stabilises and remains under control.
Epidemiologist Ben Cowling, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, says there is quite a high level of vaccine hesitancy in the territory.
A key factor is the public s fragile confidence in vaccine safety, not helped by reports of adverse events and deaths after the jabs.
Data released on May 8 showed that adverse events, including migraine, chest pain and facial paralysis were reported in 0.16 per cent or about 2,400 cases of the 1.5 million doses of vaccines administered. In all, 16 deaths within 14 days of vaccination were reported, that is 0.001 per cent fatalities for all doses given.
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