Hong Kong's public hospitals, long known for professionalism, have become a...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s public hospitals, long known for professionalism, have become a new front in the anti-government protests that have engulfed the city for more than five months.
Police rarely entered areas like labor or emergency wards before the protests escalated in June, according to Arisina Ma, president of the Hong Kong Public Doctors’ Association , which represents public hospital staff, and six other doctors and nurses who requested anonymity. The Hospital Authority has instructed staff not to take part in public assemblies and express opinions on the protests as they say it affects hospital operations.
The plan has since been withdrawn, but the protests have continued amid widespread public anger that the government has refused to set up an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality and amnesty arrested demonstrators. China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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