Clinics visited by H7N9 bird flu patient will remain open
Staff and patients will be observed, as campsite in Sai Kung is turned into quarantine centre
Two private clinics in Tuen Mun remained open yesterday after they were identified as having treated an Indonesian domestic helper later diagnosed to be infected with the deadly H7N9 strain of bird flu.
The two doctors who saw the ill helper late last month, along with nurses and patients who were present when she sought treatment, are among more than 200 people placed under observation by health authorities.
Yesterday, a patient at the clinic of Dr Simon Wong Siu-shan said he was not worried the doctor might have been infected.
"There is unlikely to be a big risk," the man said after consulting Wong, who treated H7N9 patient Tri Mawarti, 36, at his Castle Peak Road clinic on November 25. A nurse said Wong was busy seeing patients and had declined to be interviewed.
At the cake shop next door, an employee felt there was nothing to worry about since the family the helper lived with had not tested positive for the virus.
Over at the clinic of Dr Wong Chun-yan, who treated Tri on November 26, the doctor was not available for comment.