BEIJING: The mainland’s strategy of pooling medical resources to fight the Covid-19 epidemic has been adopted by Hong Kong’s medical system and has proved effective in reducing the number of seriously ill patients and fatalities, according to the chief executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.
Tony Ko Pat-sing said in a recent interview with Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao that the latest Covid-19 wave has put a strain on the city’s health care system because many patients needed to be hospitalised and there weren’t enough beds at the early stages of the outbreak.
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