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Hong Kong’s private hospitals, which are mostly not equipped to treat Covid-19 infections, will offer beds to non-coronavirus patients from public medical facilities to ease the city’s healthcare crunch. Hong Kong Private Hospitals Association Chairman William Ho Shiu-wei said that among the 364 beds provided by the private sector for general use in an initial stage, only 24 from CUHK Medical Centre would be designated for Covid-19 patients as the facility was new and could be remodelled. “Many private hospitals have invited engineers from the Hospital Authority to look at their situation. If the hospitals are not designed to accept...
