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SFH on Union Hospital medical incident

Following is a transcript of remarks (English portion) made by the Secretary for Food and Health, Dr York Chow, at a media stand-up session after attending the press conference on the public consultation on the Electronic Health Record Sharing System today (December 12):

Reporter: (On naming the private hospital involved in the medical incident.)

Secretary for Food and Health: Normally we do not name any private hospitals if they have a suspected sentinel event reporting. But in this case, the Department of Health suspected and had later confirmed that the hospital should have received the information four months ago.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)


Ends/Monday, December 12, 2011
Issued at HKT 15:26

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