Hongkongers to draft end-of-life treatment refusals online from next year

Hongkongers will be able to create advance medical directives electronically as early as next year, setting out which life-sustaining treatments they do not wish to receive when terminally ill on the city’s eHealth record platform, authorities have said.

In a written reply to lawmakers on Wednesday, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said the electronic service for advance medical directives, which currently exist in paper form only, would be rolled out “in phases”.

He said that...