Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong to launch 24-hour inpatient services

The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong will launch 24-hour inpatient services in December – a first for the city – and charge patients HK$980 (US$125) per day for subsidised care, more than three times the fee at public hospitals.

The city’s first dedicated traditional Chinese medicine hospital will also launch 10 additional special disease programmes within this year to help treat conditions such as eczema and Parkinson’s disease.

The hospital, which opened last December in Tseung Kwan O, aims to provide services for more complex cases under a model that features Chinese medicine as the primary approach, integrated with Western medicine.

The expansion of services, announced on Tuesday, includes the provision of 24-hour inpatient care from December 11.

The hospital will provide 93 inpatient beds – consisting of 60 government-subsidised and 33 non-subsidised ones – as well as 20 beds under its clinical trial and research centre and two high-dependency beds in the first phase. The number of beds is expected to reach 400 by the end of 2030.

The subsidised inpatient option will cost HK$980 a day – a fixed, overall package price that covers all treatment-related services, such as room fee, visits by registered practitioners, Chinese medicine interventions, tests and medication.