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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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