Hong Kong committed to helping mainland China’s health standards ‘go global’

he event marks a first for Hong Kong.

Photo: Handout Hong Kong is committed to helping mainland China’s medical and health standards “go global”, with the local health minister hailing the city’s first time hosting a national medical conference as an event of “great significance”.

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau also said Hong Kong was striving to meet the mainland’s certification requirements for a local stroke centre, following the accreditation of a heart disease treatment facility under national standards last year.

Lo officiated at the opening of the 15th China Chest Pain Centres Congress at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai on Friday. “It’s a great pleasure to attend the 15th China Chest Pain Centres Congress.

It’s the first time that a Chinese national medical conference is being held in Hong Kong, which is of great significance,” he said.

The two-day event brought together about 3,000 medical experts from the city, the mainland and the rest of the world to exchange knowledge on treating heart disease and developing cardiovascular medicines.

During the event, the international version of the Chest Pain Centre Construction and Accreditation Standards was also issued.

They provide a framework for healthcare institutions worldwide to establish chest pain centres and adopt standardised treatment protocols to raise overall clinical outcomes. “Under the constitutional advantage of ‘one country, two systems’, Hong Kong … has a high level of medical expertise and an efficient healthcare system aligned with international standards,” Lo said in his address. “Hong Kong has consistently played a vital role in China’s reform and opening up, serving as a ‘superconnector’ and ‘super value-adder’ linking the mainland to the world and fulfilling the functions of ‘bringing in’ and ‘going out’.” Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau (fourth from left) attends the opening ceremony for the 15th China Chest Pain Centres Congress.

Photo: Handout He noted that the chest pain centre in Queen Mary Hospital, the city’s first to obtain national accreditation, had achieved remarkable results since its opening a year ago. “The median time from patient arrival to restoration of cardiac blood flow has been reduced by nearly half, from 105 minutes before accreditation to 53 minutes, well below the national standard requirement of 90 minutes, contributing to improved patient survival rates and prognosis,” the minister said.

He said that the Hospital A

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