Cross-cultural communication （121）　

121) Hong Kong doctors leaving the country　
According to an article in the November 24, 2021 morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun, doctors and nurses are moving overseas one after another because they dislike the Hong Kong National Security Law that came into effect in June 2020. The opposition demonstrations by Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp against the National Security Law were reported around the world, including in Japan, and Hong Kong's doctors, who are already highly intelligent, have access to a lot of information in English, so the proportion of pro-democracy doctors should be high. Therefore, it seems that the Chinese government could have predicted this situation in advance.

In order to improve the shortage of doctors, the Hong Kong government planned to bring in foreign doctors who had obtained their licenses outside of Hong Kong. They were mainly thinking of doctors from mainland China, who account for 60% of the number of candidates by country, but it seems that the pass rate for doctors who had obtained their licenses in mainland China was a terrible 28% (compared to 63% for other foreign doctors). Doctors and nurses who remain in Hong Kong have expressed their opposition to the Hong Kong government's plan to abolish this selection test. This is only natural, because the quality of doctors who are entrusted with people's lives cannot be allowed to decline.

As shown in on this blog, the quality of doctors in mainland China is considerably lower than the global standard due to the poor medical policies of the Chinese government. Cross-cultural communication (102) Alongside education, medical care is the most important infrastructure for modern nations. China's recent heavy-handed foreign policy seems extremely unreasonable even from the perspective of a doctor like myself.

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