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Antiviral drugs not given to Hong Kong patient in latest hospital blunder

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An elderly cancer patient and chronic hepatitis B carrier is seriously ill after doctors forgot to prescribe antiviral drugs for her liver condition in yet another public hospital blunder. The incident at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital was revealed on Wednesday, two months after the high-profile case of 43-year-old Tang Kwai-sze, who was the victim of a similar blunder. She had to undergo transplant surgery twice in April after suffering from acute liver failure, as doctors failed to...

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