Hong Kong government urged to take control over notorious nursing home
Four patients relocated from Bridge of Rehabilitation have since been involved in accidents and returned to the familiar facility, which is set to have its licence revoked
Lawmakers have called on the government to take over operations of a scandal-hit nursing home for the mentally disabled, after the relocation of residents to new facilities resulted in a series of accidents.
The social welfare department last week said it would revoke Bridge of Rehabilitation’s temporary operating licence for failing to comply with care and management standards and after at least five suspicious deaths took place at the facility over the past two years. More than half the residents have since relocated from the Kwai Chung home.
Just days after their relocation, however, Labour Party legislator Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung said a number of the residents had been involved in accidents at their new homes, and had to be returned to familiar surroundings.
He said two mentally impaired female residents started fighting each other once placed at their new home – something that had not happened before.
In another case, he said a woman was hospitalised for prolonged sun exposure at her new facility, which was caused by a lack of staff. And a man with cognitive disorder went missing from his new home four times after leaving Bridge of Rehabilitation.
