The accident and emergency departments of all public hospital groups in Kowloon and the New Territories last year failed to meet their pledge of seeing 90 per cent of urgent cases within half an hour.
The problem was particularly acute in the Kowloon Central, Kowloon East and New Territories West groupings, where the percentages plunged to 71, 79 and 80 per cent, respectively.
Dr Simon Tang Your-hang, chairman of the Hospital Authority's accident and emergency central co-ordinating committee, said that each hospital faced different problems. |
