STORY: Hong Kong, mainland healthcare professionals exchange brings mutual inspiration
DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2023
LENGTH: 0:02:23
LOCATION: HONG KONG, China
CATEGORY: HEALTH

SHOTLIST:
1. various of healthcare professionals from the Chinese mainland arriving in Hong Kong
2. various of Princess Margaret Hospital
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Cantonese): YEUNG YIU-CHEONG, Deputy chief of service of medicine and geriatrics of Princess Margaret Hospital
4. various of hospital
5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LIU JIALI, Nurse from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
6. various of hospital
7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Cantonese): SAVINA SZE, Nurse consultant of gerontology from the Hospital Authority
8. various of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital

STORYLINE:

About six months ago, a group of new faces appeared in the medical team of Hong Kong's public hospitals.

Over 80 healthcare professionals from the Chinese mainland came to Hong Kong to exchange for about a year under Greater Bay Area Healthcare Talents Visiting Programs.

The visiting programs, implemented by Hong Kong's Hospital Authority, aimed to foster the development of the healthcare sector between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, and broaden the talent pool in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the long run.

The programs allowed healthcare professionals from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province to work and learn in each other's public health system, thereby improving the quality of medical services in the two places.

A total of 10 doctors, all from Grade 3A (the highest grade in China) hospitals in southern China's Guangdong Province, came to Hong Kong and worked in different public hospitals.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Cantonese): YEUNG YIU-CHEONG, Deputy chief of service of medicine and geriatrics of Princess Margaret Hospital
"The mainland doctors who came to Hong Kong this time have rich experience and are fluent in Cantonese. They have quickly adapted to the working life of Hong Kong hospitals."

To help Kuang and other mainland doctors adapt to their work, Yeung, from Hong Kong, arranged for them to make ward rounds and see outpatients together with local doctors in the first two months after they had arrived.

Liu Jiali, a nurse from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, was one of the 70 mainland nurses who came to exchange in Hong Kong through the visiting programs.

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LIU JIALI, Nurse from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
"I still remember when I arrived in the hospital on the first day, the nurses were like walking with rollers. They walked very fast and were very busy. When I went to see my clinical supervisor, she told me to go to work with her first and leave other things behind."

Sze, who has been in the nursing profession in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, described this exchange as an eye-opener for her. 

SOUNDBITE 3 (Cantonese): SAVINA SZE, Nurse consultant of gerontology from the Hospital Authority
"This time I have learned the latest developments in medical care in the mainland from the mainland nurses. For instance, 5G smart hospitals have developed quite well in the mainland."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hong Kong, China.
(XHTV)