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Letters | Ways to solve Hong Kong’s dentist shortage
- Readers write in about the city’s dentist shortage, and an inspiring life journey
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I am a retired civil servant. My supposed annual dental check-up for 2024 has been rescheduled to June 2025. The dental clinic staff told me the delay was unavoidable due to a shortage of government dentists. May I suggest the government explore all avenues in hiring more dentists?
Firstly, hire dentists from the mainland or Taiwan. They could be offered higher wages and better housing subsidies. One condition could be that they work in government clinics for three years before they can practise privately.
Secondly, advertise in Commonwealth countries for dentists to work in Hong Kong. Thirdly, hire doctors from non-Commonwealth countries like the Philippines.
Lau Shui Sang, Kwai Chung
Inspiring read
What an inspiring story in the Up Front section of the Post Magazine on April 9.
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