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Hong Kong and Mainland sign medical and health cooperation agreement (with photos)
The Secretary for Food and Health, Dr Ko Wing-man, today (November 1) met
with the Minister of National Health and Family Planning Commission, Ms Li
Bin, who led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. They also signed the renewed
version of the cooperation agreement between the two places to promote
health development and enhance the quality of healthcare services.
Dr Ko said Hong Kong and the Mainland has been in close collaboration on
medical and health aspects, adding that the agreement renewed today will
continue to lay a more solid foundation for the two places to cooperate and
exchange in the future which will help promote public health of both places.
Under the cooperation agreement, both sides encourage cooperation and
exchanges between the relevant departments, institutions, scientific
research institutions as well as hospitals in various medical and health
areas. Cooperation areas include prevention and control of diseases,
emergency response on health for sudden public incidents, medical training,
healthcare services development, health promotion, Chinese medicine,
healthcare planning, hospital management, health legislation, information of
medical and health, health regulation and enforcement, as well as community
health services.
Ms Li and the delegation visited Queen Mary Hospital this morning to learn
more about public hospital services and organisational structure of medical
services in Hong Kong. They also visited the Haematopoietic Stem Cell
Transplantation Centre, Accident and Emergency Department and Major Incident
Control Centre, Liver Transplant Centre as well as the Pharmacy Department.
Yesterday (October 31), they called on the Hospital Authority (HA) and met
with the HA Chairman, Professor John Leong, and Chief Executive, Dr Leung
Pak-yin. The two parties exchanged views on public healthcare services,
including healthcare development of the Mainland and Hong Kong, and drug
procurement and management of HA. Ms Li and the delegation then went to the
Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and signed a memorandum of understanding with
the Academy to promote exchanges and cooperation between the Mainland and
Hong Kong on medical education areas.
Ends/Sunday, November 1, 2015
Issued at HKT 13:15
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