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A Short Summary of How the HK Government Will Utilize Its Funding in the Upcoming Financial Year
The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has passed Ocean Park's 5.4 billion financial subsidy application with 32 yes counts, 20 no, and 2 abstains. Part of the 5.4 billion subsidy is for paying the commercial loans to the Bank of China.
In the announcement for Hong Kong's 2020 budget earlier this year, it was announced that a $75 billion recurrent funding will be provided to the Hospital Authority, which is a 3.6 billion increase (5% increase) from the previous financial year. An additional 1.6 billion single-time funding will also be provided for the Authority to acquire medical supplies, which will bring up the total funding to the Authority to 76.6 billion. It was, however, learnt that during the speech by Paul Chan, the Financial Secretary, he compared the amount of funding with that of 2 years ago (2017/2018), and stated the budget was an increase of 35% from previous, which was 30% more than the comparison to that of 2019. When compared to the 8.5% increase from 2018 to 2019, this year's funding is actually a lesser increase (only 5%).
The industry is still concerned that the Authority still lacks a solution to address the loss of mid-level health workers. It was also suspected that the measure is to target workers who participated in strikes demanding a full border closure during the epidemic.
On the other hand, the HK police force will receive 25.8 billion in funding this financial year, which is a 2.2 billion increase from last year. Also, the wage subsidy funding in 2019/20 was initially set to 25.6 million, it was then amended to 2.55 billion (9 times increase). The funding is expected to cover expenses for creating 2543 extra positions on top of the already existing 35863 positions, and for acquiring 6 armoured vehicles, with each vehicle costing around $12.8 million.
Source: i-Cable News, Apple Daily, MingPao
#May31 #Medical #HKPolice #OceanPark
A Short Summary of How the HK Government Will Utilize Its Funding in the Upcoming Financial Year
The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has passed Ocean Park's 5.4 billion financial subsidy application with 32 yes counts, 20 no, and 2 abstains. Part of the 5.4 billion subsidy is for paying the commercial loans to the Bank of China.
In the announcement for Hong Kong's 2020 budget earlier this year, it was announced that a $75 billion recurrent funding will be provided to the Hospital Authority, which is a 3.6 billion increase (5% increase) from the previous financial year. An additional 1.6 billion single-time funding will also be provided for the Authority to acquire medical supplies, which will bring up the total funding to the Authority to 76.6 billion. It was, however, learnt that during the speech by Paul Chan, the Financial Secretary, he compared the amount of funding with that of 2 years ago (2017/2018), and stated the budget was an increase of 35% from previous, which was 30% more than the comparison to that of 2019. When compared to the 8.5% increase from 2018 to 2019, this year's funding is actually a lesser increase (only 5%).
The industry is still concerned that the Authority still lacks a solution to address the loss of mid-level health workers. It was also suspected that the measure is to target workers who participated in strikes demanding a full border closure during the epidemic.
On the other hand, the HK police force will receive 25.8 billion in funding this financial year, which is a 2.2 billion increase from last year. Also, the wage subsidy funding in 2019/20 was initially set to 25.6 million, it was then amended to 2.55 billion (9 times increase). The funding is expected to cover expenses for creating 2543 extra positions on top of the already existing 35863 positions, and for acquiring 6 armoured vehicles, with each vehicle costing around $12.8 million.
Source: i-Cable News, Apple Daily, MingPao
#May31 #Medical #HKPolice #OceanPark
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3 Experts Leave as Wave of Resignation Sweeps HKU Microbiology Department
A wave of resignation is happening in the Microbiology department of the University of Hong Kong. According to a source, eight clinical professors and three senior experts for research, clinical study and teaching have already resigned, constituting to about 40% of the total clinical staff, including former and current department head Susanna Lau Kar-Pui and Patrick Woo Chin-yung, and Samson Wong Sai-yin, assistant professor.
The three experts resigned were students of Yuen Kwok-yung, with Susanna Lau Sai-yin and Patrick Woo Chin-yung had participated in research on new and emerging infectious and participated in the research study of SARS, etc.
At the early stage of an epidemic outbreak, 400 doctors from the Hong Kong West cluster held a petition to request the government to close the border. One of the cosigners was Susanna Wong.
Due to the shortage of manpower, Yuen Kowk-yung, chair professor of microbiology department, has requested to stop services in Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong and hospital in Shenzhen.
Source: Ming Pao
#Jul20 #Microbiology #HKU #Resignation
3 Experts Leave as Wave of Resignation Sweeps HKU Microbiology Department
A wave of resignation is happening in the Microbiology department of the University of Hong Kong. According to a source, eight clinical professors and three senior experts for research, clinical study and teaching have already resigned, constituting to about 40% of the total clinical staff, including former and current department head Susanna Lau Kar-Pui and Patrick Woo Chin-yung, and Samson Wong Sai-yin, assistant professor.
The three experts resigned were students of Yuen Kwok-yung, with Susanna Lau Sai-yin and Patrick Woo Chin-yung had participated in research on new and emerging infectious and participated in the research study of SARS, etc.
At the early stage of an epidemic outbreak, 400 doctors from the Hong Kong West cluster held a petition to request the government to close the border. One of the cosigners was Susanna Wong.
Due to the shortage of manpower, Yuen Kowk-yung, chair professor of microbiology department, has requested to stop services in Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong and hospital in Shenzhen.
Source: Ming Pao
#Jul20 #Microbiology #HKU #Resignation
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