After the sudden death of a 60-year-old woman at home confirmed the diagnosis, the family said waiting for quarantine for many days without being arranged, denouncing the authorities should be responsible for administrative malpractice.
A month and a half since Hong Kong entered the fourth wave of the New Guinea virus epidemic, both the rescue and prevention efforts have been in disarray, with frequent mistakes and public discontent. In addition, a 63-year-old confirmed male patient escaped from the hospital isolation ward, has not been found for more than 48 hours, the police are wanted throughout the city.
A 62-year-old woman in Mei Lam Estate, Sha Tin, died suddenly at home while waiting to be sent to the quarantine center, the deceased later confirmed the diagnosis. Family members angrily denounced the authorities for administrative malpractice leading to tragedy, should be responsible for the incident; Kwai Shing West Estate, a 49-year-old woman has a family member diagnosed, 10 days after being sent to the quarantine center, the woman was finally infected as a confirmed patient; and Tai Wo Estate, a man was diagnosed on Friday (18) waiting to be sent to the examination period, and a family of six in a room together, repeatedly called the Department of health has not been accounted for. The political party criticized the incident as reflecting the slow and “extremely incompetent” mechanism of the Hong Kong government in handling the sending of tests, and the lack of manpower in the Department of Health, which made the diagnosed person and his family wait indefinitely, increasing the risk of infection.
Miss Zhao, whose mother passed away recently, pointed out that before she was sent to the AWE community isolation facility, she had repeatedly instructed the Department of Health staff to contact her elderly mother who lived alone every day, but her mother had complained to her about the lack of staff to contact her before she died, and she had to make her own arrangements for three meals and ask her neighbors to buy daily supplies. She also said that if the government had made proper arrangements, her mother would have received treatment long ago, but after the tragedy, “not even a single phone call or condolences”, and never contacted her and explained the situation, criticizing the government’s indifference and questioning the authorities’ failure to arrange social workers and conduct safety risk assessments for the elderly singletons waiting to be sent for examination, asking the government to investigate in detail and review the process of sending for examination.
The government is also criticizing Chan Siu-chee by name, saying that she, as the Secretary for Food and Health, should be clear about the number of people waiting to be sent for testing every day and coordinate with various departments, and should not shift the responsibility to the frontline staff, and stressing that the government has sufficient resources and should use police vehicles to pick them up when necessary.
As for the 63-year-old confirmed male patient Li Yunqiang, who escaped from the isolation ward of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the evening of Friday (18), has not yet been found, and the police have issued a picture wanted. Sunday (20) 1:00 a.m., about 10 police officers in protective clothing, again to his apartment in Mongkok Garden Street search, but did not find any, stay about an hour after leaving.
According to a spokesman for the hospital, Lee Yun-keung was admitted to the hospital’s isolation ward from the 14th of this month to receive treatment, the source said the patient had been uncooperative earlier, although his condition has been stabilized, but not in line with discharge guidelines.
According to the Hong Kong Prevention and Control of Disease Regulation, any person who escapes from quarantine or isolation in a hospital, residential care home for the elderly, residential care home for disabled persons, childcare center, convalescent centre or similar premises commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 2 months.
In addition, the Hong Kong government has announced that it has pre-ordered three vaccines, but has made several U-turns on the issue of liability for adverse effects after vaccination. But on Sunday (20) and in the weblog to change the wind, said that the definition of the relevant legal responsibility does not mean to exempt the pharmaceutical companies of all responsibility for the vaccine, but also said that if the vaccine risk is higher than the benefits can consider revoking its registration. MPs criticized the government for backtracking on the safety responsibility of the new vaccine, weakening public confidence in vaccination.
Pro-establishment MP Elizabeth Quat believes that the procurement and injection of vaccines is a top priority, and hopes that the authorities “think clearly before coming out”, if they often change their words, or “squeeze toothpaste” type of information released, in addition to affecting the public’s perception of the government’s epidemic prevention, and even affect the public’s desire to inject vaccines in the future, the impact is very large, describing the incident reflects the authorities’ poor consideration, or make the public feel that “in the end it (the Hong Kong government) The government’s decision to waive the vaccination requirement is not a good one. She also believes that if the government decides to exempt the responsibility of pharmaceutical companies, Hong Kong can consider setting up a fund to deal with the compensation mechanism.
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