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Lam Cheng's fracture︱Why are politicians always admitted to the hospital? Private clinics set up by famous professors of the University of Hong Kong are very popular

2021-10-19T05:16:21.831Z


Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor fell in Government House on Monday (18th) night. After a doctor's examination, it was confirmed that her right elbow was slightly fractured. She was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital for observation overnight and was discharged. Maybe readers with a clear heart will notice


Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor fell in Government House on Monday (18th) night. After a doctor's examination, it was confirmed that her right elbow was slightly fractured. She was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital for observation overnight and was discharged.


Perhaps a clear reader will notice that senior officials and celebrities often go to Queen Mary Hospital for medical treatment when they are injured.

In fact, apart from being relatively geographically close to the Government Headquarters and Government House, Queen Mary Hospital is unique in that it has many well-known professors from the University of Hong Kong Medical School who are very "welcomed" and receive dignitaries from time to time.


▼Lam Cheng left Queen Mary Hospital this morning to thank the media for their concern ▼


Mary conducted private consultations for several authoritative professors at the University of Hong Kong Teaching Hospital

Queen Mary Hospital is the teaching hospital of the Li Ka-shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. In addition to public specialist outpatient services, it also provides private specialist outpatient services.

Private specialist clinics are provided by accredited professors from the University of Hong Kong, doctors from Queen Mary Hospital and clinical psychologists.

In the list of private outpatient doctors in Queen Mary Hospital, there are many famous professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, such as Professor Li Qinglong, an authority on gastroenterology and liver, Professor Lu Chongmao of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, and Chair Professor and Department of Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the University of Hong Kong. Director Zhang Wenzhi and so on.

Because of this, many high-ranking officials or celebrities will go to Queen Mary Hospital for medical treatment if they feel unwell.

According to the information, when the former Chief Secretary for Administration Zhang Jianzong was treated for nasal cysts in August the previous year, he also went to Queen Mary Hospital for electrotherapy. The Director of the Food and Health Bureau, Chen Zhaoshi, suffered at least three falls during his tenure as an official. He was also treated at Queen Mary Hospital.

Tung Chee-hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former chief executive, recently went to Queen Mary Hospital to undergo surgery for a heart problem.

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In the past, it was revealed that the illness of senior officials has caused controversy

However, apart from being "welcomed" by senior officials, the health status of senior officials and celebrities often becomes the focus of the public and the media, and the hospital generally refuses to disclose based on the privacy of patients, but there are occasional "fish that slip through the net."

In the past, Queen Mary Hospital broke the controversy that the illness of senior officials was first disclosed.

For example, in March 2011, Liu Wuhuilan, then Director of the Bureau of Commerce and Economic Development, caught the media's attention for taking sick leave for several consecutive days.

Later, the newspaper revealed that she was undergoing an operation to remove colon cancer at Queen Mary Hospital. In April of the same year, Liu Wuhuilan resigned as the director for health reasons.

During the election of the Election Committee subsector in April 1998, the then Secretary for Justice, Leung Ai-si, did not go to the polling station of the legal subsector to vote, which aroused media attention.

At that time, the government issued a press release stating that Leung Ai-shi was admitted to the hospital due to "gastrointestinal disease" and "successful large intestine surgery."

However, the day after Liang Ai-shi underwent the operation, two newspapers obtained faxes of Liang Ai-shi's medical records, and learned that Liang Ai-shi was suffering from colon cancer, not the "gastrointestinal disease" announced by the government.

An assistant in the laboratory was sentenced to six months in jail for dishonest access to the computer because he was not authorized to print the computer scan report of Liang Aishi and fax it to the newspaper.

Lam Cheng's fracture︱The current government female officials have suffered many disasters. Zheng Ruohua and Chen Zhaoshi both fell and injured the hand bone. Shi has a hand rest on her right hand: Thank you for your concern about Carrie Lam’s fall and a fractured right elbow. She was discharged from the hospital this morning.

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Source: hk1

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