Say No to 24‐Hour Public Outpatient Clinics in Hong Kong

In 2005, the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong supported "the direction to facilitate the setting up of 24-hour medical clinics". In 2010, the Chairman of the Hospital Authority announced the Authority was "mapping out a plan for 24-hour general outpatient clinics". In fact, such round-the-clock clinics have been in existence for quite some time in countries and cities such as the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Dubai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, but essentially in the private sector only. There are ten arguments against the setting up of 24-hour public clinics in Hong Kong. They are as follows: