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Hong Kong development minister pledges public report on Queen Mary Hospital lift failures
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Hong Kong development minister pledges public report on Queen Mary Hospital lift failures

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Hong Kong's development minister promised a public report on faulty lift installations at Queen Mary Hospital's new block but declined to confirm whether the Heads of Departments Accountability System would be used to investigate the issue.

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The Heads of Departments Accountability System was unveiled in last year's policy address as a mechanism to investigate departmental failures.

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Hong Kong’s development minister has pledged to give a public account of whether her bureau failed to properly oversee faulty lift installations at Queen Mary Hospital’s new block, but stopped short of confirming if a new accountability system for heads of departments would be invoked to probe the saga.

“Why did those issues occur with the lifts? When were those problems identified, or why have they not been identified yet? All of this will be detailed in the coming report we will submit to the chief executive, which will subsequently be disclosed to the public as well,” she told a television programme on Saturday.

But Linn stopped short of saying whether she would invoke the Heads of Departments Accountability System, unveiled in last year’s policy address, to investigate the lift incident, stressing the first phase of the follow-up investigation had already begun.

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  • Whether the Heads of Departments Accountability System will be invoked to investigate the lift incident
  • When the lift problems were first identified
  • Why the lift issues were not identified earlier

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This article was originally published by SCMP Economy.

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