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Our public healthcare system is on the verge of collapse…

Discipline Hong Kong Singapore

Accident & Semi-urgent /
(1)
Emergency Minor Emergencies (2) 114 mins 45 mins

Orthopaedics &
Specialist Traumatology 73 weeks 4 weeks
outpatient (3) Source. Food and Health Bureau; Yap &

Ophthalmology 51 weeks 3 weeks Qian (2016)

Note. (1) Hong Kong’s average waiting time of Semi-urgent cases at public hospitals in 2017-18 (up to 31 December 2017). (2) Singapore’s average median waiting time of Minor
Emergencies cases at public hospitals between January 2013 and June 2016. (3) Hong Kong’s figures refer to median waiting time of new stable cases at public hospitals in 2017-
18 (up to 31 December 2017). Singapore figures refer to median waiting time of new appointments, excluding those referred from the Emergency Department who receive medical 3
consultation within the same day, across public healthcare institutions between January 2013 and June 2016.