With the median age of women having their first child in Hong Kong (HK) rising from 28.1 years in 1991 to 32.3 years in 2020, the rates of comorbidities and obstetric complications are expected to increase. Thus, notably, there is an increasing need for maternal critical care, resulting in the first HK maternal special care (MSC) unit being piloted in the Prince of Wales Hospital in May 2018 which aims to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. In an interview with Omnihealth Practice, Dr. Hui, Shuk-Yi Annie talked about her experience in founding the first MSC unit in HK and shared a clinical case of preeclampsia with postpartum hemorrhage which benefited from the MSC unit and resolved without developing complications

Ovarian cancer remains the most deadly gynecologic malignancy, and its incidence has been steadily increasing over the past few decades. In Hong Kong, ovarian cancer is the 7th leading cause of female cancer deaths. The crude death rate was 5.5 per 100,000 female population. In 2017, a total of 218 women died from this cancer, accounting for 3.7% of all cancer deaths in females. In a recent interview, Dr. William Foo, Specialist in Clinical Oncology, shared his insights on the management of ovarian cancer in Hong Kong.