All ID cardholders can use hospitals, gov’t says, amid concern about overseas Hongkongers returning for treatment
All Hongkongers holding identity cards or aged under 11 are eligible to use the city’s public hospitals, health chief Lo Chung-mau has said as lawmakers raised concern that Hongkongers based overseas were returning to the city for medical treatment. “If a person holds a Hong Kong identity card but is barred from public hospitals, this would cause serious issues. We need to approach this matter more cautiously,” Lo said in Cantonese at the legislature on Wednesday, adding that it was difficult to define what counted as “moving abroad.” Pro-establishment legislator Priscilla Leung had asked if t...