Don't be too optimistic about walking into a govt clinic and walking out with drugs.
You will have to go through the diagnostics here and the specialists will prescribe what they feel your mother needs. This process might take a year plus or may be less if you get into a priority queue.
How is your mother going to cope with the hotel quarantine?
Did you get POA sorted out to manage her stuff?
We are still waiting/hoping for more favourable quarantine policies to be in place before flying...3 weeks in some hotel (which are probably hard to book) with questionable food and space at ridiculous cost...we wish to avoid that as much as possible...so still waiting it out! I am guessing POA means powers of attorney ? Luckily she is well enough to still manage her stuff...i hope.
Incorrect. Wife has thyroid, and they issue meds for 6 months. She goes to the local outpatient centre in Tung Chung hospital to see a doctor. Very fast, very very efficient. No costs for the meds and about 50 hkd to see the doctor.
Just as a side note to this, we dropped the private doctor thing long ago. The doctors in TC hospital are always available, a 24 hour booking line that gets you in same day or next. No extra expense for any meds/x-rays etc. All happens quickly.
Also just as a general opinion on a family of 4. Have always got far better service, diagnosis etc than places like Quality which we used for years. The very fact that if the doc wants to do an xray,scan or tests and it all happens at the same appointment, then go back to the doc for results is outstanding and certainly not something you get in the private little practices in HK and certainly far superior than the UK. I would note though that TC hospital/outpatients is fairly new and probably would not be the case in the older clinics.
I think once you are in the public system with a chronic condition, then the procedure can be ok. The problem is the initial steps and waiting time to get in the public system.