Queen Mary Birth

again, you cannot "choose" your public hospital. it is dictated by where you live. of course, you could try to use a family/friend's address when you register to try to get around their catchment system.
 
I live in Mui Wo and was told I could choose between QMH and Pamela Youde.
I chose QMH. Maybe other areas fall into 2 different clusters for maternity services? Anyway, chose QMH because I knew people who had delivered there and had a good experience. A few more months and I'll be able to judge for myself if I made the right choice!
 
for some very, very strange and inexplicable reason, the outlying islands fall under pamela youde in the eastern cluster. makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. i can understand why they would allow you to go to qmh, but am surprised by it.

but for someone who lives, say, in the mid-levels... i don't think they would be as understanding.

anyone who has lived in hk for any length of time can tell you that the bureaucrats here are not known for their "thinking outside the box" abilities, or for their ability to go against the regulations.
 
Carang, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong. I was just saying that there might be other weird set up with healthcare and geography.
As for the HK bureaucracy, I have stopped trying to understand and apply logic, I just do as told :)
 
Siesta, my post wasn't directed at you. Glad that they will let you deliver at QMH. like i said, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that the outlying islands on that side of HK are supposed to belong to the eastern hk island cluster. makes much more sense that they belong to the western island cluster.

i have heard of people using friends' addresses/relatives' addresses etc to get around the catchment system. so, it is possible to "work the system"....

i just wanted posters to be aware that the catchment/cluster system exists so that they can plan accordingly.
 
Could someone who has been through the public system clarify the process for me

I went to register today at the PY and have been given a booking appointment date of next week

When I go to that I will be 11 weeks... what happens at that first appointment and then how many more appointments / scans / check up's do you get after that ?

I am keen to go fully public for birth and all check ups (I can think of better things to spend my cash on than the amount you can spend of private Obs appointments/scans/checks) but they wouldn't tell me what the stages of check ups are when I went today as they said.. "step by step" we will explain all that at the next appointment

Just want to know if I will get a scan soon

Also for downs/viability testing when is that done ?

Thanks a lot ladies
 
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