The Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance establishes a legal framework for advance directives, addressing an aging population’s demand for end-of-life dignity while protecting medical professionals from liability
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Hong Kong has enacted a landmark law granting terminally ill patients the right to refuse life-sustaining treatments, providing legal protection for medical professionals and offering a statutory framework for end-of-life care in the rapidly aging city.
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Formal legal framework will empower Hongkongers to specify in advance which life-sustaining treatments they wish to refuse when…
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Hong Kong is heading in the right direction with an end-of-life law that helps ensure greater comfort and dignity in a person’s…
Efforts must be made to promote awareness of the new law and its implementation should be carefully monitored.
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