Transfer measures for HK patients

February 20, 2019

Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan:
Regarding your question about the Greater Bay Area, the focus is really on Hong Kong people who live in the Greater Bay Area. So that suggested transfer measure is really for Hong Kong people. Throughout the years, those Hong Kong people who live in the Greater Bay Area have expressed a need for having a better or better facilitated transportation (of non-emergency Hong Kong patients). So this is just to explore how this can be taken forward.

The proposed provision of land-based cross-boundary transfer services for non-emergency and non-critically ill patients are for Hong Kong people, Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan said today.

The Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has called for a study on the provision of the transfer services.

Prof Chan told reporters that Hong Kong people living in the bay area have expressed the need for a better arrangement to facilitate non-emergency Hong Kong patients on the Mainland to return to Hong Kong for medical treatment.

The plan proposes to explore ways on taking the transfer measure forward, she added.