Health in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's medical infrastructure consists of a mixed medical economy, with 11 private hospitals and 42 public hospitals. There are also polyclinics that offer primary care services, including dentistry.
Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world. Because of its early health education, professional health services, and well-developed health care and medication system, Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 85.9 for females and 80 for men, which is the third highest in the world, and an infant mortality rate of 2.73 deaths per 1000 births, the ninth lowest in the world. The proportion of the population over 65 years old is expected to grow from 14% in 2013 to 18% in 2018, and the number of people with a long term condition is expected to increase by 33% over the same period.
Hong Kong has high standards of medical practice. It has contributed to the development of liver transplantation, being the first in the world to carry out an adult to adult live donor liver transplant in 1993.
Hong Kong has only about 1.7 doctors per 1000 people. Only 11 doctors qualified outside the country work in the public hospital system because the Medical Council places barriers to the employment of foreign doctors. There are about 6000 registered practitioners of Traditional Chinese medicine.
Free treatment, with small co-payments, is available to people with a Hong Kong identity card and to resident children under the age of 11.
Between 2007 and 2011 public spending on healthcare increased by 30%. In 2014/5, it was about 17% of all government expenditure.
A Dennis Sabre Fire Engine belonging to the Hong Kong Fire Services Department.
A Mercedes-Benz Axor truck belonging to the Hong Kong Fire Services Department.
A motorcycle belonging to the Hong Kong Fire Services Department.
St. John Ambulance Brigade Hong Kong Island Area Headquarters.
The Mercedes-Benz Vito 115CDI ambulances for St. John Ambulances Hong Kong.
MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong AlbertCotton.
The Department of Health, under the Food and Health Bureau, is the health adviser of Hong Kong government and an executive arm in health legislation and policy. Its main role is to safeguard the health of the community through promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services in Hong Kong. The main function of the department includes child assessment service, immunisation programmes, dental service, forensic pathology service, registration of healthcare professionals etc., though boards and councils (i.e. Medical Council of Hong Kong, Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong) are independent statutory bodies established under the relevant ordinances that operate independently to discharge their statutory functions.
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