A doctor who worked full time at the Alliance Medical Group in Hong Kong has said the company’s sudden apparent closure followed months of financial instability, leaving him with unpaid wages of up to HK$800,000 (US$103,190) and causing anxiety for patients over ongoing treatment. The doctor, who spoke to the Post on Saturday on condition…
A domestic helper in Hong Kong has been charged with child abuse after she was accused of scalding her employer’s one-year-old son with hot water. A police spokesman said on Thursday the force had received a report from the mother of the child the day before. Officers arrested a 43-year-old domestic helper in Ma On…
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation on Friday denied that staff had refused to lend an automated external defibrillator (AED) to help a 62-year-old man who had collapsed outside a railway station and later died. Police said officers were alerted at 3.07pm last Friday to an incident involving a man who had passed out outside Tsuen Wan…
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has rejected allegations that it refused to lend an automated external defibrillator to help rescue a 62-year-old man who died after collapsing outside a station. Police said officers were alerted at 3.07pm last Friday to an incident involving a man passing out outside the MTR Tsuen Wan West Station. The 62-year-old,…
Hong Kong authorities are using advanced genome sequencing to see whether separate infections or underlying factors contributed to the death of a young oncologist after a suspected outbreak of a highly toxic E coli strain at a hospital where two other doctors have also presented symptoms. One of the experts involved in the investigation said…