Frustrated parents clamour for help as hospital battles to cope

More than 100 parents took their children to Princess Margaret Hospital for kidney checks yesterday, fearing for their health after having fed them milk products they suspect were adulterated with the industrial chemical melamine.

Melamine causes kidney stones and other renal problems. Four children on the mainland fed tainted baby formula have died and more than 100 have acute renal failure.

Emily Tang, whose sons, aged eight and 10, had often drunk milk made by mainland suppliers Yili and Mengniu milk over the past two years, told of a frustrating time.

Yili and Mengniu are among producers whose products have been found to contain melamine.

'We came [to the paediatrics and adolescent medicine clinic] at 10am, but the nurses did not tell us the procedures ... we had no idea what to do and where to go,' she said.

'Many parents are frustrated. They have waited for a long time without having lunch.'

Ms Tang also said it was unfair that some children had been given checks at the paediatric unit without referrals.