Doctor claims second hospital had better living conditions for the patients
Construction for Hong Kong's first non-profit private teaching hospital -- the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Medical Centre -- started on Thursday.
In a valley flanked by snow-capped peaks on China's border with the Kingdom of Bhutan, a small hospital consisting of three brick bungalows stands among stretches of adobe houses.
A second fire is believed to have occurred at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) in Johor Baru, this time at the operation theatre in its emergency and trauma ward.
A hospital here that is the centerpiece of a series of suspected poisoning murders of patients has seen a total of 48 inpatients die on its fourth floor since July this year, sources close to the institution have revealed.
At least 11 people have been killed and 19 injured in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a Yemeni hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières as the conflict escalates following the collapse of peace talks.
At least 30 people were killed and 50 others injured when a blast hit a hospital in Pakistan's southwest Quetta city on Monday morning, local Urdu media reported.
German police said on Tuesday the attack on a train on Monday night was probably politically motivated.
Obstetrics experts are urging women who want to become mothers again at an advanced age to think twice, after news of a 61-year-old woman giving birth went viral online this week.
In a scene more like a battlefield than an emergency room in a large American city, dozens of people hit by gunfire poured into the Orlando Regional Medical Center in the dark predawn hours of Sunday morning, lining the hallways and filling the operating rooms.
A prestigious Indian hospital said on Monday it was duped by traffickers into removing the kidneys of victims believing they were relatives of needy patients, after five people were arrested for the crime.
In an intensive care unit, a nurse soothes a crying baby rescued in a raid on a private Indian hospital that police suspect was selling abandoned newborns on the black market.
Five more women say their babies, delivered at a private hospital in Hong Kong, had the same potentially fatal bacterial infection as another baby discharged as healthy but later rushed to a different hospital for treatment. The cases occurred over an eight-day period.
Cai, a male nurse at an ICU unit in a hospital in central China's Hunan Province, is used to being misunderstood. "Some people think I must have psychological problems because they don't understand why a man would do a 'feminine' job."
Ten military staff members, including two in charge of the hospital that offered an experimental cancer therapy to a young man who died last month, have been punished.
Hu Xuna, from China's southern city of Guangzhou, used to hate taking her child to the doctor. But she dreads it less now that she can skip the long lines and pay the bill with a few taps on her smartphone.
An explosion in a navy hospital in the Indonesian capital killed four people and injured several others on Monday, an official from the health ministry said.
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