#NAWChannel How the coronavirus is affecting Hong Kong hospital patients with other conditions

How the coronavirus is affecting Hong Kong hospital patients with other conditions
Visitation ban and lack of manpower are spillover effects of outbreak, as pregnant women are unable to see their partners, while family members can only talk to loved ones on video call
Hospital Authority says measures are to enhance infection control and focus resources

Gemmarie Ho Pui-lum knew she would be alone when she gave birth. It was not by choice. Just a couple of weeks before her due date, Ho found out that public hospitals across the city had banned partners from labour wards, because of the coronavirus outbreak.
“It was a mental challenge in the build-up to the birth. I felt like, I don’t know if I can do this alone,” says Ho, 35, a teacher at Little Gems Playgroup in Discovery Bay.
“But you do just get on with it, because there isn’t really an option.”
After her daughter, Margot Cawston, was born at Queen Mary Hospital on February 11, at 7.15am, Gemmarie called her husband.

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