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Doctors at Hong Kong Asia Heart Centre offer surgeries at low cost to ease burden on public health care system amid coronavirus outbreak

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Doctors at a private clinic in Hong Kong will voluntarily perform surgeries at lower fees, as public hospital resources are stretched to the limit to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.The Hong Kong Asia Heart Centre announced on Tuesday it would provide heart operations starting from HK$67,000 (US$8,630), half of what it usually charged, to make emergency services affordable to public hospital patients.The service offered is called percutaneous coronary intervention, a procedure that opens up…

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