More than 110,000 patients secured fee waivers within a month since Hong Kong’s public medical fee reform took effect this year, a jump from 14,000 for a whole year previously, the health minister said while defending the new regime.
Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau said on Friday that among the more than 110,000 people with approved waivers, about 53,000 had already received certificates for fee reduction.
The roughly 60,000 patients remaining who had failed to provide income and asset proof…
