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A team from Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) has visited Kuala Lumpur to try to recruit Malaysian nurses in hopes of easing a significant manpower shortage in Hong Kong’s public hospitals, with 2,559 nurses resigning or retiring last year. The authority hosted recruitment briefing sessions on Monday and Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, introducing a new policy to allow non-locally trained nurses to work in Hong Kong, according to a statement on Wednesday. “The response was very positive, with many participants expressing interest in coming to Hong Kong for career development,” Simon Tang, the HK’s …