Stay tuned for Hospital Horrors
With his heart thumping so loudly he thought he would wake up the dead, the morgue worker glanced fearfully over his shoulder. Where could it have gone? Dead babies don't just get up and walk away! He looked again in the compartment where he knew he had stored the baby with the corpse of an obese man. But the tiny body was not there. Could some idiot have thrown it out with the trash? Or could there be something more sinister at work here? An icy shudder ran down his body.
Stay tuned, folks, for the next episode of Hong Kong's top thriller series, Hospital Horrors! You know it will be a cliffhanger. If past seasons are anything to go by, the Case of the Disappearing Dead Baby will keep you awestruck till the very end. Weren't you astounded by The Unbelievable Case of the Heart Attack Patient who died at a hospital doorstep after staff treated with no urgency his son's frantic pleas for help? And what about the Case of the Numerous Body Mix-ups at Public Mortuaries? Grieving families repeatedly being handed the wrong bodies must have left you open-mouthed. And you must have gaped at the Case of the Woman Whose Breast Was Mistakenly Removed by a Doctor.
It may not have dawned on Hospital Authority officials yet but they have a winner on their hands with Hospital Horrors! All they need do to keep us on the edge of our seats is to stick to business as usual - that is, continue messing up. Imagine the possibilities ... the Case of the Missing Amputated Leg, the Case of the Patient Mix-up in a Sex Change Operation, and so on.
No big deal in America
Public Eye is baffled. Why is the Case of the Disappearing Dead Baby such a big issue in Hong Kong when an almost identical case which happened at around the same time in New Jersey received so little attention in the US? As in Hong Kong, a stillborn baby that went missing after being stored in the hospital's morgue triggered a massive search of landfills. But unlike in Hong Kong, the tale didn't gain much traction. What does that say about us?
