Update | Manila crisis survivor Yik Siu-ling still searching for answers from hospital
Hostage-crisis survivor remains unclear if public relations took priority over her care after meeting at Prince of Wales Hospital
Manila hostage-crisis survivor Yik Siu-ling said a meeting with Prince of Wales Hospital staff members had failed to answer her concerns over whether public relations had taken priority over her medical needs in the early days of her treatment.
The mother-of-one demanded the disclosure of the full set of e-mails in which her doctors and the chief executive of the Sha Tin hospital discussed the operation she underwent on her shattered jaw on September 13, 2010.
"There are still a lot of things they did not explain clearly," Yik said, accompanied by lawmaker James To Kun-sun, two lawyers and her twin sister, after yesterday's two-hour meeting.
"They did not address whether there was a political consideration [behind the delay to the operation]," the 37-year-old said.
Last month the South China Morning Post reported accusations by retired head of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery Professor Andrew Burd that high-level hospital administrators had public-relations concerns ahead of Yik's treatment.
Yik's lower jaw was shattered on August 23, 2010, when she was shot in the face by gunman Rolando Mendoza as he killed eight Hongkongers on a tour bus.