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Only half of the private clinics in Hong Kong that want to provide specialised medical services have applied for a licence to do so, the regulator responsible for overseeing them has revealed. According to government statistics, 167 provisional and 43 full licences for day procedure centres were issued by the end of September, with 37 applications pending, accounting for only half of the 400 to 500 centres estimated by the Department of Health when they laid out the ordinance. During the same period, the Office for Regulation of Private Health Care Facilities received 14 complaints regarding private hospitals and day...
