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Elderly Hong Kong asthma patient’s death was from natural causes, inquest finds, despite family pointing fingers at doctors




An elderly asthma patient died in a Hong Kong hospital of natural causes, an inquest found on Friday, despite the man’s family insisting he was the victim of medical malpractice.A Coroner’s Court jury found that 74-year-old Yau Ming-poon died of respiratory arrest and asthma exacerbation in Tuen Mun Hospital on May 16, 2016.But the five-member jury urged the Hospital Authority to upgrade its public hospitals, including the provision of different medicines for emergency use and more advanced…



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