Morgue and funeral parlor full house!! Guess which useless country??

[Cottonmouth]

Bodies pile up at hospitals and mortuaries struggle to find space as Covid-19 deaths climb in Hong Kong​

• City’s mortuaries have already tripled their capacity but are running out of room to handle the dozens of residents who are dying daily
• ‘The medical system is completely overwhelmed,’ says David Chan from the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance

Rachel Yeoand Ng Kang-chung
Published: 7:00am, 28 Feb, 2022


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The mortuary at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
The bodies of residents who died from Covid-19 are being stored on gurneys in hallways or beds inside accident and emergency departments at public hospitals as mortuaries approach capacity in Hong Kong.
David Chan Kwok-shing, a representative of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, on Sunday said he heard that in some cases, a body remained in an A&E unit for a day before finally being transferred to the hospital’s mortuary, which was already full.
“The medical system is completely overwhelmed,” Chan said.

Covid-19 patients wait at a temporary holding area at Caritas Medical Centre in Cheung Sha Wan on Saturday. Photos: Sam Tsang
Dr Albert Au Ka-wing, principal medical and health officer at the Centre for Health Protection, revealed three public mortuaries had reached 90 per cent capacity in the past week as an exponential rise in infections brought a record number of deaths.


The Fu Shan Public Mortuary in Tai Wai, Kwai Chung Public Mortuary and Victoria Public Mortuary in Kennedy Town had increased capacity from a total of 506 bodies to 1,350, but were all rapidly filling up, he said.

Since the fifth wave began in late December, Hong Kong has logged 158,683 cases, taking the total for the entire pandemic to 171,214. Health officials reported 83 Covid-related deaths on Sunday alone, taking the total to 727.

Top mainland Chinese expert on Covid to arrive in Hong Kong; 26,026 cases logged
28 Feb 2022
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Dr Lau Ka-hin, the authority’s chief manager of quality and standards, conceded that transporting bodies from hospitals to mortuaries was proving difficult.
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“We see an increase in the number of deaths because it has been colder and the pandemic has gotten worse. A lot of patients at [emergency rooms] are already in critical condition or had suffered from cardiac arrest,” Lau said. “We can’t cope with the transportation of corpses at the moment in a timely manner. That’s why sometimes they are seen in emergency rooms. We are already doing our best.”

He noted the law required an autopsy be carried out on patients who died before they reached the hospital or after brief resuscitation.

“We tried our best to put the bodies in our hospital mortuary, but some of them may be kept in A&E units,” Lau added. “They will be transported to the public mortuary.”
The authority had communicated with the departments of health and food and environmental hygiene about prompt collection of bodies, he revealed.

Lau also said officials were communicating closely with the funeral service sector and families of victims, so they could collect the bodies as soon as possible to free up space at the morgue.
But some funeral parlours have declined to accept the bodies. Hong Kong Funeral Business Association chairman Ng Yiu-tong said: “As far as I understand, it is the decision of individual funeral homes. You have to appreciate that, too, Covid-19 is an infectious disease. If a cluster developed in a funeral home, the result could be disastrous. The funeral home may need to be closed for disinfection and a lot of services cannot be held. So, some individual funeral homes may want to play it safe.”

Hong Kong mothers frustrated by delayed treatment at public hospitals
27 Feb 2022
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On the recent backlog at mortuaries, Ng said he understood that the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department had stepped up cremations.

“Basically, families can choose to send the deceased directly from a hospital mortuary to a government crematorium. But many would like to hold ceremonies for their beloved and thus they would like to wait until a time slot or hall is available at the funeral parlour,” he said.
He expected the backlog problem at funeral homes could start easing later this week.

“The Chinese people usually do not like to hold funeral services in the first month of the Lunar New Year,” he said.
At present, seven licensed funeral parlours in Hong Kong have service halls and mortuary facilities for storage and handling human remains.

During the outbreak of Severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, 299 people died but no reports emerged of bodies piling up at hospitals. Overcrowding at mortuaries at public hospitals was reported in early 2004 and 2019, largely because relatives were reluctant to reclaim bodies for funeral services during the first month of the Lunar New Year.
Outside Hong Kong, reports circulated last July of a Thai hospital using refrigerated containers to store bodies after its morgue was overwhelmed by Covid-related deaths. Earlier last year, refrigerated containers were also reportedly used by some hospitals in California to store bodies. A temporary mortuary was built in London in January last year in the face of the huge Covid death toll there.

 

[A Singaporean]

Will Shit Times report such matter on Sickipoora?

 

[syed putra]

Seems to me like hongkies dumping their old incapacitated folks into gomen care.
I thought omicron is mild and not a problem as panadol can solve.

 

[Leongsam]

Bodies pile up at hospitals and mortuaries struggle to find space as Covid-19 deaths climb in Hong Kong​

• City’s mortuaries have already tripled their capacity but are running out of room to handle the dozens of residents who are dying daily
• ‘The medical system is completely overwhelmed,’ says David Chan from the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance

Rachel Yeoand Ng Kang-chung
Published: 7:00am, 28 Feb, 2022


Why you can trust SCMP

The mortuary at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
The bodies of residents who died from Covid-19 are being stored on gurneys in hallways or beds inside accident and emergency departments at public hospitals as mortuaries approach capacity in Hong Kong.
David Chan Kwok-shing, a representative of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, on Sunday said he heard that in some cases, a body remained in an A&E unit for a day before finally being transferred to the hospital’s mortuary, which was already full.
“The medical system is completely overwhelmed,” Chan said.

Covid-19 patients wait at a temporary holding area at Caritas Medical Centre in Cheung Sha Wan on Saturday. Photos: Sam Tsang
Dr Albert Au Ka-wing, principal medical and health officer at the Centre for Health Protection, revealed three public mortuaries had reached 90 per cent capacity in the past week as an exponential rise in infections brought a record number of deaths.


The Fu Shan Public Mortuary in Tai Wai, Kwai Chung Public Mortuary and Victoria Public Mortuary in Kennedy Town had increased capacity from a total of 506 bodies to 1,350, but were all rapidly filling up, he said.

Since the fifth wave began in late December, Hong Kong has logged 158,683 cases, taking the total for the entire pandemic to 171,214. Health officials reported 83 Covid-related deaths on Sunday alone, taking the total to 727.

Top mainland Chinese expert on Covid to arrive in Hong Kong; 26,026 cases logged​

28 Feb 2022​

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Dr Lau Ka-hin, the authority’s chief manager of quality and standards, conceded that transporting bodies from hospitals to mortuaries was proving difficult.
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“We see an increase in the number of deaths because it has been colder and the pandemic has gotten worse. A lot of patients at [emergency rooms] are already in critical condition or had suffered from cardiac arrest,” Lau said. “We can’t cope with the transportation of corpses at the moment in a timely manner. That’s why sometimes they are seen in emergency rooms. We are already doing our best.”

He noted the law required an autopsy be carried out on patients who died before they reached the hospital or after brief resuscitation.

“We tried our best to put the bodies in our hospital mortuary, but some of them may be kept in A&E units,” Lau added. “They will be transported to the public mortuary.”
The authority had communicated with the departments of health and food and environmental hygiene about prompt collection of bodies, he revealed.

Lau also said officials were communicating closely with the funeral service sector and families of victims, so they could collect the bodies as soon as possible to free up space at the morgue.
But some funeral parlours have declined to accept the bodies. Hong Kong Funeral Business Association chairman Ng Yiu-tong said: “As far as I understand, it is the decision of individual funeral homes. You have to appreciate that, too, Covid-19 is an infectious disease. If a cluster developed in a funeral home, the result could be disastrous. The funeral home may need to be closed for disinfection and a lot of services cannot be held. So, some individual funeral homes may want to play it safe.”

Hong Kong mothers frustrated by delayed treatment at public hospitals​

27 Feb 2022​

​

On the recent backlog at mortuaries, Ng said he understood that the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department had stepped up cremations.

“Basically, families can choose to send the deceased directly from a hospital mortuary to a government crematorium. But many would like to hold ceremonies for their beloved and thus they would like to wait until a time slot or hall is available at the funeral parlour,” he said.
He expected the backlog problem at funeral homes could start easing later this week.

“The Chinese people usually do not like to hold funeral services in the first month of the Lunar New Year,” he said.
At present, seven licensed funeral parlours in Hong Kong have service halls and mortuary facilities for storage and handling human remains.

During the outbreak of Severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, 299 people died but no reports emerged of bodies piling up at hospitals. Overcrowding at mortuaries at public hospitals was reported in early 2004 and 2019, largely because relatives were reluctant to reclaim bodies for funeral services during the first month of the Lunar New Year.
Outside Hong Kong, reports circulated last July of a Thai hospital using refrigerated containers to store bodies after its morgue was overwhelmed by Covid-related deaths. Earlier last year, refrigerated containers were also reportedly used by some hospitals in California to store bodies. A temporary mortuary was built in London in January last year in the face of the huge Covid death toll there.

Oh dear this has not aged very well......

https://theconversation.com/are-wom...er-on-coronavirus-the-data-backs-it-up-144809

Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up ​

Published: August 28, 2020 10.37pm NZST

Authors​

1. 
   Associate Professor of Development Economics, University of Liverpool
2. 
   Professor of Economics; Head of School, University of Reading

Disclosure statement​

Supriya Garikipati received funding from an internal UoL grant to carry out this work.

Uma S Kambhampati is a member of the Labour Party.

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Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders were seen to have handled the crisis remarkably well. Whether it has been New Zealand under Jacinda Ardern or Taiwan under the presidency of Tsai Ing-Wen or Germany under Angela Merkel, female-led countries have been held up as examples of how to manage a pandemic.

We decided to investigate whether this anecdotal perception stands up to more systematic scrutiny. To do this, we analysed how leaders around the world reacted to the early days of the pandemic to see whether differences in performance can be explained by differences in policy measures adopted by male and female leaders.

Two qualifications need to be kept in mind: first, we are only at the start of the pandemic and much could change in the next few months. Second, the quality of data currently available is limited. Inadequate testing means that case numbers are probably an underestimate. The way deaths are registered also varies across countries.

There are far fewer female-led countries in the world when compared to male-led. Just 10% in our sample of 194 countries have women as national leaders. Given the small number of female-led countries, the most appropriate way to consider their performance is to match them with “similar” male-led countries. We did this by matching countries with similar profiles for the socio-demographic and economic characteristics that have been seen as important in the transmission of COVID-19.

Get news that’s free, independent and based on evidence.​

In the first instance, we compared countries with similar GDP per capita, population, population density and population over 65 years. We then extended our matching variables to include three other characteristics: annual health expenditure per capita, number of tourists entering the country and gender equality.


These comparisons threw up clear differences between female-led and similar male-led countries during the first quarter of the pandemic (up to mid-May).


Hong Kong, which is led by a woman, recorded 1,056 cases and four deaths while Singapore, which has a similar economy and comparable demographic characteristics, but is led by a man, recorded 28,794 cases and 22 deaths in the same period. Similarly, Norway, led by a woman, had 8,257 cases and 233 deaths, while Ireland, led by a man, recorded 24,200 cases and 1,547 deaths. Taiwan recorded 440 cases and seven deaths while South Korea had 11,078 cases and 263 deaths.

Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up ​

Published: August 28, 2020 10.37pm NZST

Authors​

1. Supriya Garikipati
   Associate Professor of Development Economics, University of Liverpool
2. Uma S Kambhampati
   Professor of Economics; Head of School, University of Reading

Disclosure statement​

Supriya Garikipati received funding from an internal UoL grant to carry out this work.

Uma S Kambhampati is a member of the Labour Party.

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University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK.
University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK.

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Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders were seen to have handled the crisis remarkably well. Whether it has been New Zealand under Jacinda Ardern or Taiwan under the presidency of Tsai Ing-Wen or Germany under Angela Merkel, female-led countries have been held up as examples of how to manage a pandemic.
We decided to investigate whether this anecdotal perception stands up to more systematic scrutiny. To do this, we analysed how leaders around the world reacted to the early days of the pandemic to see whether differences in performance can be explained by differences in policy measures adopted by male and female leaders.
Two qualifications need to be kept in mind: first, we are only at the start of the pandemic and much could change in the next few months. Second, the quality of data currently available is limited. Inadequate testing means that case numbers are probably an underestimate. The way deaths are registered also varies across countries.
There are far fewer female-led countries in the world when compared to male-led. Just 10% in our sample of 194 countries have women as national leaders. Given the small number of female-led countries, the most appropriate way to consider their performance is to match them with “similar” male-led countries. We did this by matching countries with similar profiles for the socio-demographic and economic characteristics that have been seen as important in the transmission of COVID-19.

Get news that’s free, independent and based on evidence.​

In the first instance, we compared countries with similar GDP per capita, population, population density and population over 65 years. We then extended our matching variables to include three other characteristics: annual health expenditure per capita, number of tourists entering the country and gender equality.
These comparisons threw up clear differences between female-led and similar male-led countries during the first quarter of the pandemic (up to mid-May).
Hong Kong, which is led by a woman, recorded 1,056 cases and four deaths while Singapore, which has a similar economy and comparable demographic characteristics, but is led by a man, recorded 28,794 cases and 22 deaths in the same period. Similarly, Norway, led by a woman, had 8,257 cases and 233 deaths, while Ireland, led by a man, recorded 24,200 cases and 1,547 deaths. Taiwan recorded 440 cases and seven deaths while South Korea had 11,078 cases and 263 deaths.

 

[red amoeba]

Singapore likewise is led by a woman. Defies the trend. Hence the theory is bullshit.

 

[Leongsam]

 

[Flying Horse]

Will Shit Times report such matter on Sickipoora?

They won't. But just take a look at www.fastjobs.sg and you can see many listing like this from Crematorium.

 

[syed putra]

7 day workdaye every two weeks? I can still deliver food while getting paid in the funeral parlour.

 

[Cottonmouth]

Oh dear this has not aged very well......

https://theconversation.com/are-wom...er-on-coronavirus-the-data-backs-it-up-144809

Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up ​

Published: August 28, 2020 10.37pm NZST

Authors​

1. 
   Associate Professor of Development Economics, University of Liverpool
2. 
   Professor of Economics; Head of School, University of Reading

Disclosure statement​

Supriya Garikipati received funding from an internal UoL grant to carry out this work.

Uma S Kambhampati is a member of the Labour Party.

Partners​

Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders were seen to have handled the crisis remarkably well. Whether it has been New Zealand under Jacinda Ardern or Taiwan under the presidency of Tsai Ing-Wen or Germany under Angela Merkel, female-led countries have been held up as examples of how to manage a pandemic.

We decided to investigate whether this anecdotal perception stands up to more systematic scrutiny. To do this, we analysed how leaders around the world reacted to the early days of the pandemic to see whether differences in performance can be explained by differences in policy measures adopted by male and female leaders.

Two qualifications need to be kept in mind: first, we are only at the start of the pandemic and much could change in the next few months. Second, the quality of data currently available is limited. Inadequate testing means that case numbers are probably an underestimate. The way deaths are registered also varies across countries.

There are far fewer female-led countries in the world when compared to male-led. Just 10% in our sample of 194 countries have women as national leaders. Given the small number of female-led countries, the most appropriate way to consider their performance is to match them with “similar” male-led countries. We did this by matching countries with similar profiles for the socio-demographic and economic characteristics that have been seen as important in the transmission of COVID-19.

Get news that’s free, independent and based on evidence.​

In the first instance, we compared countries with similar GDP per capita, population, population density and population over 65 years. We then extended our matching variables to include three other characteristics: annual health expenditure per capita, number of tourists entering the country and gender equality.


These comparisons threw up clear differences between female-led and similar male-led countries during the first quarter of the pandemic (up to mid-May).


Hong Kong, which is led by a woman, recorded 1,056 cases and four deaths while Singapore, which has a similar economy and comparable demographic characteristics, but is led by a man, recorded 28,794 cases and 22 deaths in the same period. Similarly, Norway, led by a woman, had 8,257 cases and 233 deaths, while Ireland, led by a man, recorded 24,200 cases and 1,547 deaths. Taiwan recorded 440 cases and seven deaths while South Korea had 11,078 cases and 263 deaths.

Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up ​

Published: August 28, 2020 10.37pm NZST

Authors​

1. Supriya Garikipati
   Associate Professor of Development Economics, University of Liverpool
2. Uma S Kambhampati
   Professor of Economics; Head of School, University of Reading

Disclosure statement​

Supriya Garikipati received funding from an internal UoL grant to carry out this work.

Uma S Kambhampati is a member of the Labour Party.

Partners​

University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK.
University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK.

View all partners

We believe in the free flow of information​

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons licence.​

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Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders were seen to have handled the crisis remarkably well. Whether it has been New Zealand under Jacinda Ardern or Taiwan under the presidency of Tsai Ing-Wen or Germany under Angela Merkel, female-led countries have been held up as examples of how to manage a pandemic.
We decided to investigate whether this anecdotal perception stands up to more systematic scrutiny. To do this, we analysed how leaders around the world reacted to the early days of the pandemic to see whether differences in performance can be explained by differences in policy measures adopted by male and female leaders.
Two qualifications need to be kept in mind: first, we are only at the start of the pandemic and much could change in the next few months. Second, the quality of data currently available is limited. Inadequate testing means that case numbers are probably an underestimate. The way deaths are registered also varies across countries.
There are far fewer female-led countries in the world when compared to male-led. Just 10% in our sample of 194 countries have women as national leaders. Given the small number of female-led countries, the most appropriate way to consider their performance is to match them with “similar” male-led countries. We did this by matching countries with similar profiles for the socio-demographic and economic characteristics that have been seen as important in the transmission of COVID-19.

Get news that’s free, independent and based on evidence.​

In the first instance, we compared countries with similar GDP per capita, population, population density and population over 65 years. We then extended our matching variables to include three other characteristics: annual health expenditure per capita, number of tourists entering the country and gender equality.
These comparisons threw up clear differences between female-led and similar male-led countries during the first quarter of the pandemic (up to mid-May).
Hong Kong, which is led by a woman, recorded 1,056 cases and four deaths while Singapore, which has a similar economy and comparable demographic characteristics, but is led by a man, recorded 28,794 cases and 22 deaths in the same period. Similarly, Norway, led by a woman, had 8,257 cases and 233 deaths, while Ireland, led by a man, recorded 24,200 cases and 1,547 deaths. Taiwan recorded 440 cases and seven deaths while South Korea had 11,078 cases and 263 deaths.

women should focus on fellatio, hole digging and making sandwich.

 

[Cottonmouth]

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It's ridiculous they even link this to gender or to glorify the one in charge who happens to have a cunt. What's their excuse now? Cun't make it??

 

[gingerlyn]

What to do ? Their leader was appointed by China communist and The virus was also created by Chinese communist . We call that 自屎其果