Cleve Wong: Beds

Hong Kong Dept: "We always had a full house here," Cleve Wong, administration and finance manager at the hospital, said in an interview. Not anymore. Rooms with five or six beds each are now empty. Others have been converted into storage rooms. Vacant beds and extra space are things Canadian hospitals might love to have, but in Hong Kong, they are a problem, according to CBC. "The income dropped," said Wong. "That's the effect of the policy." The maternity ward at Precious Blood Hospital in Hong Kong isn't the bustling place it once was, thanks to new restrictions on mainland Chinese women who want to give birth across the border. Until January, every one of the 37 beds at Precious Blood was typically taken. The public and private hospitals all charged a hefty fee for mainland women to give birth. The recent crackdown, aimed at slowing the flood of mainland mothers-to-be, has meant a major loss of revenue, especially for private hospitals that were catering to them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.