The establishment of the Authority served to rebuild state capacity amid the emergence of party politics in Hong Kong.

[5] In 2003, Hong Kong suffered from the outbreak of SARS and recorded considerable number of patients and casualties.

In the early phase of the outbreak, public hospitals placed SARS patients in non-quarantined rooms that severely increased the chance of infection.

Medical sector legislator Leung Ka-lau said the lack of daily cover during the crisis was "insensitive".

[17] In September 2022, Henry Fan Hung Ling, chairman of the Hospital Authority, lobbied for a "significant expansion" of traditional Chinese medicine used in Hong Kong's public healthcare.

[18] Days later, the Hospital Authority released information from a study it conducted, showing that traditional Chinese medicine could be used to cure long COVID.

"[19] However, Professor Bian Zhaoxian admitted that the patients could have recovered naturally rather than because of the Chinese medicine, and that the study was not conducted using a scientific randomized controlled trial.

[22] Concrete slab about the size of a small backpack, had fallen onto an empty bed at Castle Peak Hospital in Tuen Mun in November 2022.

Slabs of concrete, with the biggest one sized at about 30 x 30 centimeters, falling from the ceiling inside a consultation room of Kwai Chung Hospital on 8 Mar destroying a printer, as disclosed by a netizen.