Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong, has opened a first web site with information and advice with regard to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS. The sitewww.droid.cuhk.edu.hk has already registered 71,3000 visits, many of them signed as doctors.
The Prince of Wales Hospital has the highest number of patients hospitalised in Hong Kong for SARS. The hospital administration opened the web page in Chinese and English because of the lack of proper information and advice about the virus. The site, opened with the collaboration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aims to provide help to doctors and nursing staff all over the world who are fighting the spread of the virus.
On the web site visitors may even consult x-rays and not only of patients at the Prince of Wales but also those in hospitals in Singapore and the United States. In fact the centre for control of the disease in the United States and the World Health Organisation have set up links with www.droid.cuhk.edu.hk to enable doctors and researchers to examine all available information in real time.
The head of the site, Dr Huang Jiade of the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, explained: "Since the outbreak of SARS many doctors have asked for the results of our x-rays which are difficult to communicate by phone. So we had the idea of setting up this special Internet site to offer as much help as possible to the many people involved in studying and fighting the SARS across the world. (Fides Service 14/4/2003 EM lines 32 Words: 422)