#FirstHand #Feb6
Public Voice Support For Medics On Strike

21:19 | Sai Wan
Protesting citizens chanted "Support medical workers to go on strike".

Public hospital medical workers in Hong Kong have been on strike for 4 days, demanding the Hong Kong government to close the borders with China, so as to stop effectively the spread of the new coronavirus.

This is the first medical workers' strike ever in the history of Hong Kong. The government, however, insisted on letting the borders open.

6,300 medical workers are recorded on strike on Feb 6.

#Strike #MedicalWorkers #HKMedics #HKEA

#HKChronicles #May13
In Memory of Dr. Joanna Tse Who Sacrificed Herself to Save SARS Patients 17 Years Ago

The SARS outbreak in 2003 took the lives of eight medical workers in Hong Kong. Also a type of coronavirus, SARS was first carried to Hong Kong by a man from China in February. The SARS disease, with a much higher mortality rate than COVID 19, had traumatized the population in Hong Kong.

On 13 May 2003, Dr Joanna Tse Yuen-man, a pulmonologist at Tuen Mun Hospital, passed away at 35 after volunteering to treat SARS patients.

The other 7 medical workers who passed away were:

- Dr Cheng Ha-yan (Tai Po Hosital)
- Dr Cheung Sik-hin (Private Otolaryngology Doctor)
- Lau Kam-yung (Health Assistant, United Christian Hospital)
- Dr Lau Tai Kwan (Private Paediatrics Doctor)
- Lau Wing-kai (Nurse, Thoracic Medical Department, Tuen Mun Hospital)
- Tang Heung-mei (Health Assistant, United Christian Hospital)
- Wong Kang-tai (Health Assistant, The Prince of Wales Hospital)

17 years later, another type of coronavirus by the name of COVID 19 returned to haunt Hongkongers. In early February, medical workers had initiated a 5-day-strike to urge the government to close the border. They had also did their best in saving those infected with the virus. Without their contribution, Hong Kong would not have been successful in containing the virus.

Let us salute the medical workers who, despite many difficulties and the chance of getting infected themselves, held our line of defense. Zero medical workers have contracted the disease and may it stay that way.

We salute to all medical workers of the world.

Source: Stand News
Image: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20658
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