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Hong Kong hospital support staff protest against labour shortages in wards during flu season

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Support staff at public hospitals who do orderly work, such as changing diapers and washing patients, staged a protest on Wednesday decrying insufficient workers to handle the heavy workload during winter influenza season. A representative from the Hong Kong Medical and Health Care Staff General Union says that two care assistants and one nurse have to serve as many as 50 to 55 patients per night between them in hospital wards. The union’s protest came after an outcry from doctors and...

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