Hong Kong faces shortage of beds amid flu outbreak

‘Hospitals in Hong Kong are facing a shortage of beds as the city is grappling with one of the deadliest strains of avian flu in recent years.

Above 90 percent of the Hong Kong’s intensive care units are full of patients with life-threatening conditions, Dr. Seamus Siu Yuk Leung of the Frontline Doctor’s Union said on Sunday.

There are merely 201 intensive care unit beds in Hong Kong, which make up only 1 percent of all beds in public hospitals run by the Hospital Authority.’

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