When the city of Hong Kong was just established, the public environment was deplorable. At first, the death toll among the British army was high as healthcare services were only provided by floating clinics. Although there were Hospital of the Medical Missionary Society and Seaman’s Hospital in 1843, but they mainly served the westerners. In 1848, the Government Civic Hospital, the first government hospital was established. However, as the Chinese had little faith in western medicine, combined with high medical fees and communication problem, only a few Chinese sought medical consultation. Most Chinese treated their illnesses with Chinese medicine methods. The early colonial government used Hong Kong as a trade hub and it embraced the style of governance which observed the policy of non-interference towards the Chinese as long as there was no impediment to governance. As a result, it did not provide any western medical services to the Chinese proactively. The Government’s policy towards the Chinese and governance approach only changed after the plague. The Government realised after the plague, that the public healthcare services, especially the western medical services, was not sufficient to meet the need at the time. In order to soften the Chinese resistance towards western medicine, the Government began to support the training of Chinese doctors, nurses and midwives. and cooperated with other organisations to set up pharmacies in different districts, so as to encourage the Chinese acceptance of western medicine. On the other hand, some upper-class Chinese who had received western education also helped promote western medicine, and Ho Kai was the representative figure among them. Through his promotion, the Alice Memorial Hospital was established and he also took forward the establishment of the Hong Kong College of Medicine with a view to providing healthcare services and training Chinese doctors for Hong Kong. Despite this, western medicine was still general