Hong Kong health authorities have ordered a review of the city’s Medical Council after it terminated an inquiry into a paediatrician due to a prolonged procedural delay of 8½ years, as the regulatory body promised to respond within eight weeks.
The move by the government came on Thursday, a day after the Patients’ Rights Association argued that the Medical Council’s ruling – the first involving a suspected medical blunder – could allow doctors to evade responsibility in future cases.
The…