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In 1950, it changed its name officially to The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong. It became one of the founding members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952. In 1936, it set up the first sub-fertility clinic. In 1955, the Hong Kong government began subsidizing FPAHK's activities.
This changed with reforms to Hong Kong's healthcare system in the late 1980s. In October 1987, Governor David Wilson officially announced the government's intention to establish a new, semi-independent Hospital Authority , which would be administered by a new Hospital Services Department (HSD). [ 1 ]
Family planning in Hong Kong occurs within a context of a total fertility rate in Hong Kong of currently 1.04 children per woman, one of the lowest in the world. The Eugenics League was founded in 1936, which became The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong in 1950. [ 1 ]
Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong is a joint venture between Singapore-based Parkway Pantai and Hong Kong-listed NWS Holdings. The University of Hong Kong is the exclusive clinical partner of Gleneagles and is responsible for clinical governance. [2] The hospital is managed by Parkway Pantai, one of Asia’s largest integrated private healthcare ...
Caritas Medical Centre (Chinese: 明愛醫院; Cantonese Yale: Mìhng'oi Yīyún) is a Roman Catholic founded district general hospital in So Uk, Cheung Sha Wan, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is the largest hospital in Sham Shui Po District and co-managed by the Hospital Authority and Caritas Hong Kong.
On 21 August 2014, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust donated HK$1.3 billion to support the construction of the hospital. [6] One of the clinical blocks was thus named after the Jockey Club. [7] The Hong Kong government granted a loan to the CUHK Medical Centre of HK$4.033 billion. The first tranche of the loan was received on 20 March 2017.
The Board of Directors of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals is responsible for ensuring the charitable organization is properly maintained. All board appointments require consent of Government of Hong Kong. [1] The incumbent chairman of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Lee Yuk-lun, took office on 6 April 2017, succeeding his predecessor, Katherine Ma. [2]
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital is the only hospital in Hong Kong which houses a pressure chamber to provide Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) service, which can be used to treat conditions such as air or gas embolism, carbon monoxide poisoning, central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO), decompression sickness, etc.