Budget Speech

Medical and Health Services

127.      The Government has been investing substantial resources to enhance the quality of public medical and health services and to keep service charges at a low level. It is estimated that recurrent expenditure on health will reach around $37 billion in 2010-11, accounting for 16.1 per cent of the recurrent government expenditure. We have pledged to further increase health expenditure to 17 per cent of the recurrent government expenditure by 2012. We will make efficient use of the additional funding to improve services and take forward the healthcare reform.

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