By Poyi (Natalie) Leung
Dr Lei Chin Ion, the deputy director of the Health Bureau (SSM) and director of Centro Hospitalar Conde de Sao Januario (CHCSJ), has been appointed to the post of director at SSM with effect from April 1.
The Official Gazette which was published yesterday lists a Social Affairs and Culture Secretary’s order authorising Dr Lei to replace director Dr Koi Kuok Ieng at the Department of Health for a two-year term.
The reason for 64-year-old Dr Koi’s unexpected resignation was not yet certain.
He formally became the head of the health department in April 2001.
Posts held by the two SSM deputy directors, Cheang Seng Ip and Maria Terezinha Yu, have not been affected by the change.
Dr Lei has been the director of CHCSJ since March 2001, following the recommendation of the then SSM director Dr Koi.
No information of either a new appointment of the hospital head or the third SSM deputy director was released yesterday, although the Organisation Act states that SSM director has to be assisted by three deputies including the director of CHCSJ.
Born in Macau in 1960, Dr Lei obtained his bachelor degree of medicine at Jinan University in Guangzhou at the age of 24.
Afterwards, he received his master degree of public administration at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou in 1996.
In 2000, Dr Lei went to the University of New South Wales in Australia to conduct a special study at the health management research institute after being awarded a scholarship from the World Health Organisation.
Before Dr Lei was promoted to be the head of CHCSJ in early 2001, he used to be the specialist and consultant, and later the chief medical officer of the hospital’s internal medicine department.
In addition, Dr Lei had worked as the committeeman of the Board of Medical Trainees at SSM, president of the Board of Infection Control and assistant of the Board of Director at CHCSJ.
