Macau | Three Portuguese doctors to join public hospital – Health Bureau

Macau (MNA) – The Health Bureau (SS) has indicated that of the eight doctors who had previously been said to have already been confirmed to be joining public hospital Conde de São Januário, five are not able to work in Macau with three currently waiting to join the service.

Of three doctors in question, two are general surgery practitioners and one is a paediatrician.

The hospital director Kuok Cheong U had previously stated in July that a total of Portuguese 23 doctors were still under consideration, from several specialties, namely, general surgery, vascular surgery, paediatrician, anaesthesiology, nephrology, plastic surgery, pathology and radiology.

In February of this year the SS initiated a recruiting round for 14 medical specialists in Portugal, after a previous round open on November of last year to hire 21 doctors.