Public doctors angry with their heavy workload yesterday announced a campaign to push for standard working hours, an arrangement which the Hospital Authority said would be difficult to implement.
The action group on doctors' standard working hours, formed on Tuesday, will appeal to public doctors to put up hundreds of posters in the city's 40-odd hospitals.
About 200 campaign banners will also be put up in the streets.
The group, formed by council members of the Frontline Doctors' Union and the Public Doctors' Association, did not rule out further action, such as sit-in protests. Some doctors worked more than 100 hours a week and up to 24 hours in one stretch, it said.
The 30-member group yesterday also demanded that secretary for food and health Dr York Chow Yat-ngok apologise for calling public doctors 'petty-minded' for asking for standard work hours.
Carrying slogans such as 'we want safe work' and 'down with secretary York Chow', the posters will be put up in each public hospital.
