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Hong Kong medical facilities under strain amid flu outbreak
Published on Feb 9, 2015 8:44 AM
HONG KONG - Medical facilities in Hong Kong are running low on a major medicine used to fight a flu outbreak in the city, and further supplies may not be available for a week, doctors have said.
Hospitals are also facing a shortage of beds as Hong Kong grapples with a new strain of avian flu, reports said.
The H3N2 outbreak started on Jan 2, and has led to the hospitalisation of some 218 patients thus far, out of which 142 have died as of Monday, South China Morning Post reported.
Health authorities had, last week, said the situation is under control with no big clusters of outbreak of the current strain. But, as the city battles against an unusual high numbers of seasonal influenza, Doctors Union president Dr Henry Yeung Chiu-fat said some private clinics may not be able to get more Tamiflu drug until Feb 15...
Hong Kong medical facilities under strain amid flu outbreak
Published on Feb 9, 2015 8:44 AM
HONG KONG - Medical facilities in Hong Kong are running low on a major medicine used to fight a flu outbreak in the city, and further supplies may not be available for a week, doctors have said.
Hospitals are also facing a shortage of beds as Hong Kong grapples with a new strain of avian flu, reports said.
The H3N2 outbreak started on Jan 2, and has led to the hospitalisation of some 218 patients thus far, out of which 142 have died as of Monday, South China Morning Post reported.
Health authorities had, last week, said the situation is under control with no big clusters of outbreak of the current strain. But, as the city battles against an unusual high numbers of seasonal influenza, Doctors Union president Dr Henry Yeung Chiu-fat said some private clinics may not be able to get more Tamiflu drug until Feb 15...
