Fast-ageing Hong Kong district Kwai Tsing to test drive subsidised health care plan
Patients seeking out medical care at a new community health care hub in a Hong Kong district with one of the city’s fastest-ageing populations will get a government subsidy and fee caps on services.
Details of the plan were revealed in a government paper on Tuesday, which set out proposals for a district health centre in Kwai Tsing, which is expected to open in the third quarter of 2019.
First announced in Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s policy address in October last year, the centre is the first step towards a primary health care network across the city’s 18 districts.
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