Hong Kong health officials to review whether ‘buying beds’ at private hospitals to ease flu crisis should be standard practice

Hong Kong’s health care chief says the government will review whether it should become standard practice to “buy beds” from private hospitals to ease overcrowding at public facilities during peak flu seasons. Speaking on an RTHK radio programme on Saturday, Secretary for Food and Health Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee said 28 public hospital patients had already been transferred to the privately-run St Teresa’s under the government’s first bed-sharing scheme. The...