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Hong Kong has one of the world’s top-ranked medical services, providing the city’s 7.4 million people with care that has a good reputation for availability, affordability and quality.

But the universal, low-cost public health care system has a downside – including long waiting times and relatively less comfort and privacy than private-sector patients get.

The public system also faces a shortage of practitioners, a serious issue the city will increasingly have to grapple with as its population continues to grow and age.

Pressure on the public system has already started pushing patients –those who can afford it – to the private-sector medical care in Hong Kong is second-most expensive in the world, after the United States.

(Photo: SCMP / Sam Tsang)

This video was originally published on 28 June 2019

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