Leung Ka-lau
Leung Ka-lau | |
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梁家騮 | |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Kwok Ka-ki |
| Constituency | Medical |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | Chinese University of Hong Kong (MBChB) University of Edinburgh (F.R.C.S.) |
| Occupation | Doctor |
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| Traditional Chinese | 梁家騮 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 梁家骝 | ||||||||||
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Leung Ka-lau (born 1962 in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhaoqing, Guangdong) is the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Functional constituency, medical). He is the first public hospital doctor to be elected as a legislator. He beat Kwok Ka-ki for the seat in the Hong Kong legislative election, 2008. Dr. Leung is a surgeon specialising in General Surgery in the Prince of Wales Hospital in Shatin.
Lawsuit for doctors' holiday work compensation
In 2006, Dr. Leung, on behalf of 165 public hospital doctors, sued the Hospital Authority to compensate for their work on rest days, statutory holidays / public holidays and overtime work. The Court of First Instance ruled the doctors can be compensated for loss of rest days and statutory holidays / public holidays, but dismissed their overtime claim. The Hospital Authority then offered a one-time compensation of HK$600 million to the 4,000 doctors affected.[1][2]