A Hospital Authority investigating team has failed to say who should be held responsible for the blunder in which a donor liver for transplant was wasted or whether there should be separate funding for costly life-saving operations.
The investigation report will be presented at a special meeting of the Legislative Council panel on health services today.
The South China Morning Post revealed how in June, Professor Allan Chang Mang-zing, chief executive of the Prince Of Wales Hospital, refused a transplant team permission to use the liver as it would have meant exceeding its quota of one transplant a month.
Earlier this month, the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr Yeoh Eng-kiong, admitted rejecting the organ had been a mistake. He said at the time: 'I know Professor Chang quite well. He is a good chief executive, a good professor . . . but anybody can make a wrong decision.' Dr Yeoh and Hospital Authority chief executive Dr William Ho Shiu-wei are expected to attend today's meeting.
Dr Yeoh has said a separate budget would give doctors more resources and flexibility for operations, and would avoid further cases in which donor organs are wasted to cut costs.
The Hospital Authority report said its investigation found that the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) performed eight liver transplants in the first half of this year, causing 'significant strain to the clinical staff and resources in other essential services'.
