Private hospitals will be asked to take patients from public medical wards that are struggling to cope with occupancy rates of up to 124 per cent amid the peak summer flu season.
The Hospital Authority said doctors from the Department of Health engaged in admin or research would also be invited to provide treatment at public hospitals, where patients are having to wait up to eight hours to see a doctor and temporary beds are laid out in corridors.
These were among a series of measures announced...
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