Hong Kong\u2019s Medical Council is under mounting pressure to account for its disciplinary procedures after concerns were raised about its handling of a second alleged blunder, this time involving an endoscopy that left a patient in a vegetative state.<\/p>\n
The council is already under fire from authorities and the city\u2019s ombudsman for its handling of an inquiry into another alleged blunder that left a child disabled for life.<\/p>\n
The latest allegations centred around the treatment of hospitalised patient Andy Chan Suk-wai, with his sister Kitty Chan speaking to the media on Sunday and accusing the council of closing her brother\u2019s case \u201chaphazardly\u201d after four years.<\/p>\n
She also said she had started a civil action against a general surgeon and an anaesthetist, accusing both of professional misconduct.<\/p>\n
Her brother, 50, went for an endoscopy at a clinic in Kowloon in July 2021, and his blood pressure and blood oxygen levels plummeted within 20 minutes of going under anaesthesia.<\/p>\n
Doctors then tried to bring him round, but he was sent to hospital with high blood pressure and pulse rate. He then momentarily fell into pulseless electrical activity, a form of cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Medical Council is under mounting pressure to account for its disciplinary procedures after concerns were raised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[160875,64,63,50559,137,500,10340,160880,160879,160876,115799,44,150572,15216,148874,160881,160878,160877],"class_list":["post-277311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-andy-chan-suk-wai","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-endoscopy","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hong-kong","tag-kitty-chan","tag-kowloon","tag-li-yuanjian","tag-medical-council","tag-news","tag-professional-misconduct","tag-scmp","tag-sit-sou-chi","tag-society-for-community-organisation","tag-tim-pang-hung-cheong","tag-vegetative-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}