Former Queen Mary Hospital foreman Chu Wing-keung, 56, has been jailed five months for accepting a bottle of red wine and 36 packets of duty-free cigarettes from subordinates seeking favourable treatment at work, and for stealing medicine.

He admitted five counts of a public servant accepting an advantage, and one of theft.

Chu was responsible for assigning duties to his subordinates, preparing duty rosters and approving leave applications. The advantages were offered to him to remain favourably disposed to the subordinates.

Chu also stole paracetamol and antihistamine from the hospital, when he was supervising subordinates in the accident and emergency ward, putting the tablets into two bottles which were subsequently recovered from his home.