Secretary for Health and Welfare Prof Lo Chung-mau warns that exaggerating claims of nurse underemployment could deter new entrants to the profession

Secretary for Health and Welfare Prof Lo Chung-mau warned on Thursday that if difficulties in nurses' employment are exaggerated, Hong Kong people must "bear the consequences", as such remarks could put off young people and reduce the number of new entrants to the nursing profession. He singled out recent claims that "graduation equals unemployment", stressing that training nurses takes time and that he does not want such comments to weaken the interest of the younger generation in joining the nursing sector.