By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-26 02:26:37 | Updated at 2025-03-26 13:19:23
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Hong Kong health authorities have said they will temporarily suspend the use of a specific model of examination lamps at public hospitals and clinics after a device fell in a treatment room at a private institution and hit two medical workers.
About 200 sets of Polaris 50 ceiling-mounted examination lamps are currently used at facilities run by the Hospital Authority, the same model as the one involved in the accident at the Urgent Care Centre of Hong Kong Adventist Hospital in Tsuen Wan on Sunday.
A spokesman for the authority called the move precautionary and said that medical engineers had been deployed to conduct inspections at the facilities. The manufacturer was also set to send personnel to carry out comprehensive checks to ensure safety.
“The authority will ask the manufacturer to conduct thorough inspections and guarantee the safety of the examination lights as soon as possible,” the spokesman said, adding that public medical facilities would not use these lamps again until their safety could be guaranteed.
Alternative examination lights from other manufacturers or models have been set up to ensure clinical services are unaffected, while the Department of Health has been investigating the device fall at the private hospital.
A staff member and a doctor were trying to adjust the lamp when it fell and struck them. Neither suffered any major injuries and did not require hospitalisation for treatment.
