Hong Kong hospital unveils plan to evacuate 600 inpatients if unexploded wartime bomb is found during excavations for redevelopment project

The public Queen Mary Hospital could evacuate inpatients to other hospitals if an unexploded wartime bomb is found during excavation work to be carried out later this year, as part of the hospital’s redevelopment project.The Pok Fu Lam hospital would also suspend its specialist outpatient clinic as well as accident and emergency services for up to 48 hours as part of the contingency plan it announced on Tuesday. The plan was established in light of the fact the construction site, where three…