Coronavirus: ‘abandoned and in a living hell’? Staff crunch leads to 20 days without showers for elderly patients at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo isolation facility

Some elderly Covid-19 patients at Hong Kong’s government-run AsiaWorld-Expo isolation facility have been deprived of showers for more than 20 days amid a staffing shortfall, with a nurse describing residents there as “abandoned” in a “living hell”.Conditions at the ward on Lantau Island are reportedly so dire, that not only have family members vented their frustration at how their loved ones are being treated, but senior medical staff who work there have also publicly taken the government to…

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