HK Hospital, travel firm push medical tours
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According to a joint announcement, the scheme is aimed at luring affluent mainlanders to visit Hong Kong for medical checkups.
The pioneering venture will offer packages that include a half-day medical checkup at the private hospital plus air tickets, hotel, transportation and a half-day sightseeing tour around Hong Kong Island, The Standard reported.
The medical tour is being targeted at middle-class professionals in affluent mainland cities.
Chief hospital manager and medical director Anthony Lee Kai-yin said he was confident mainlanders would pay even though the price was two to three times more than in the mainland.
“Many hospitals in the mainland may have caught up with our hardware, but not the software. Hong Kong’s health-care sector has a good brand image for high-quality hospital and medical services, and doctors’ credibility,” Lee was quoted saying.
However the report, quoting Hong Kong Private Hospitals Association chairman Alan Lau Kwok-lam, said Hong Kong’s immigration policy does not really promote it as a medical hub.
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