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Mystery of stock level of PPE in HA 4/4

Michael Felix Lau Hoi-man, an officer from the Hong Kong Allied Health Professional and Nurse Association and also a public hospital nurse, considered that the information about the stock level of PPE in HA’s old version Communication Kit was already inadequate and even erroneous. HA should improve by providing more accurate information. Instead, they delete the PPE stock data in their new communication kit. It is a fall back in terms of information transparency. “In previous versions, the breakdown of different items of PPE were listed out but in the current version, they delete the tables altogether. This suggests that the HA never meant to be transparent and truthful about sufficiency of PPE.”

Ivan Law Cheuk-Yiu, the vice-chairman of the HAEA and a surgical nurse at the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, believed that just providing HK PPE figures was insufficient. Individual regional networks, like the Hong Kong East Cluster, have been more transparent by providing information on daily usage and daily stock reserves of PPE. Staff was more informed of the high and low usages on any particular day.

It is also understood that Kowloon Central and Hong Kong East Clusters recently announced PPE quantities to their staff but other clusters do not. Some hospital networks only divulge this data to middle and senior ranking staff. Most frontline personnel are not privy to PPE stock level from their corresponding cluster. Mountaintopism* exists among different HA hospital cluster networks. They have their own ways of handling things within their own networks. Although individual hospitals and their networks do inform their staff of PPE stock level, when individual hospital’s managerial and leadership hold meeting to discuss and disclose the information is inconsistent. There is no standardised procedure for dispatching information across different hospital clusters. "Can the more transparent clusters push other clusters to do better?" Law questioned.

*Mountaintopism is an old communist Chinese derogatory metaphor. It describes the tendency to regard one's region of governance as their property instead of their responsibility.

Source: CitizenNews

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