The fifth wave of the epidemic broke out, with “thousands of thousands” of new cases every day. Public hospitals are in short supply. Earlier, a large number of patients were eating and drinking dew in the emergency room. The Hospital Authority announced last Friday (18th). Refers to returning all patients indoors. However, a reporter from Dongwang.com inspected outside the North Lantau Hospital this morning (22nd) and found that there were still sporadic patients with “cold wind” outside, and many of them were elderly.
The temperature in Hong Kong was very cold this morning. The lowest temperature in Chek Lap Kok was only 8.3 degrees Celsius. Coupled with the rain, the wet freezing made it even more uncomfortable. East.com reporters inspected the entrance of North Lantau Hospital at about 10:30 this morning. In the temporary diversion area built with tents and enclosed by plywood, about 8 citizens were independently in a tent waiting for admission. Some of them were elderly and People with reduced mobility.
There were also people in the tent wearing single sheets of clothes, only covered with a thin quilt, huddled on a chair, or had spent a cold night outside the courtyard. A foreign woman with a suitcase was waiting outside the door. She told reporters that she had been sitting in the temporary diversion area for one night and felt very cold.
During the reporter’s inspection, there were always people going in and out, and some elderly people were accompanied by medical staff into the room, but during the period, some people even pushed their beds into tents outside the hospital.
