Hospital Body to Use 18285 and 18286 Phone Numbers to Help People Identify Calls The Hospital Authority in Hong Kong is introducing a new system to identify genuine phone calls from public medical facilities.
Starting next week, all calls made by the authority will display a unified caller ID number beginning with either 18285 or 18286.
This move comes at a time when Hong Kong residents are increasingly wary of answering unknown numbers due to legitimate fears about scammers using hospital claimed identities to prey on vulnerable individuals.