Lo Wing-lok
{{Short description|Hong Kong doctor and politician}}
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| name = Lo Wing-lok
| native_name = {{nobold|勞永樂}}
| native_name_lang = zh-hk
| honorific-suffix = JP
| image = File:lowinglok.jpg
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| office = Member of the Legislative Council
| term_start = 1 October 2000
| term_end = 30 September 2004
| predecessor = Leong Che-hung
| successor = Kwok Ka-ki
| constituency = Medical
| ancestry =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1954|09|13}}
| birth_place = Hong Kong
| death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|5|9|1954|9|13}}
| death_place = Hong Kong
| nationality = Hong Kong Chinese
| spouse = Anna Yung Hiu-yan
| party = League of Social Democrats {{small|(2006–07)}}
| otherparty= Breakfast Group {{small|(2000–04)}}
| relations =
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| residence = Hong Kong
| alma_mater = St. Paul's College
University of Hong Kong
| occupation = Doctor
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Lo Wing-lok, JP ({{zh|t=勞永樂}}; 13 September 1954 – 9 May 2015) was a Hong Kong doctor and politician. He was the Legislative Councillor for the Medical functional constituency from 2000 to 2004. He was the vice-chairman of the pro-democracy League of Social Democrats but quit the party in late 2007. He ran for the Legislative Council again in 2004, 2008 and 2012 but was not elected. He died from lung cancer in 2015.
Biography
Lo was born in Hong Kong in 1954 and lived in the Healthy Village, a public housing estate in North Point. He graduated from St Paul's College in 1974 and from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1979. He was an infectious disease specialist.{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1791735/hong-kong-doctor-politician-lo-wing-lok-dies-60|title=Hong Kong doctor, politician Lo Wing-lok dies at 60|first=Peter|last=So|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=10 May 2015}}
He entered into politics when he was elected to the Election Committee in the 1998 Subsector elections through the Medical sub-sector. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco), representing the Medical functional constituency in 2000 Legco election.[http://www.lowinglok.org.hk/teng/profile/index.html Personal Profile of Lo Wing Lok] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926210952/http://www.lowinglok.org.hk/teng/profile/index.html |date=26 September 2008 }}[http://www.lowinglok.org.hk/Introduction_E.htm Brief Introduction to Dr. Lo Wing-lok]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Lo was chairman of the Panel on Health Services of the Legislative Council from 2002 to 2003. He belonged to the pro-government parliamentary group Breakfast Group. During the controversies over Article 23 legislation, he publicly supported the national security law. He failed to retain the seat in the 2004 election won by urologist Kwok Ka-ki. During serving on the Legislative Council, he was also president of the Hong Kong Medical Association for two terms from 2002 to 2004.
Lo made a surprise move when he joined the newly founded pro-democracy League of Social Democrats in 2006 as vice-chairman, but resigned from the position and quit the party in late December 2007 over differences with the chairman Wong Yuk-man on the lease of the party's headquarters.[http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20071229/news_20071229_56_457304.htm Lo Wing-lok resigns from League of Social Democrats] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210074254/http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20071229/news_20071229_56_457304.htm |date=10 February 2012 }}, rthk.org.hk; accessed 10 May 2015.
In 2007, he bid to represent the pan-democracy camp in the important Legco by-election for Hong Kong Island but was defeated in the primary by the eventual winner of the seat, Anson Chan.[http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2007/10/hong-kongs-former-deputy-leader-to-run-in-by-election-afp Hong Kong's Former Deputy Leader To Run In By-election], chinadigitaltimes.net; accessed 10 May 2015.
Lo stood for the Hong Kong Island constituency in the 2008 and 2012 Legco elections as an independent candidate but was not returned.
Personal life
Death
He battled lung cancer during his last years of his life. He was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital in May 2015 and then discharged, but died at Canossa Hospital the morning of 9 May.
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Category:Hong Kong medical doctors
Category:Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Category:Alumni of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong
Category:Hong Kong pro-Beijing politicians
Category:League of Social Democrats politicians
Category:HK LegCo Members 2000–2004
Category:Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 1998–2000