Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, 2-10 Princess Margaret Hospital Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
PQ Mak (麥巧臻)† MBBS
JSC Wong (黃頌智) MBBS, MRCPCH, FHKAM(Paed)
ICS Lam (林卓燊) FHKAM(Paed), FHKPaed
CC Shek (石志超) FHKAM(Paed) FHKCPaed, FRCPCH
CB Chow (周鎮邦) MD, FRCPCH, FHKCPaed
MYW Kwan (關日華)* MSc(Applied Epidemiology)CUHK, MRCPCH, FHKAM (Paed)
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR
GT Chua (蔡宇程)† MBBS, FHKAM(Paed)
JS Rosa Duque(陸俊文)† MD, PhD
YL Lau (劉宇隆) MD(Hon), FRCPCH
P Ip (葉柏強)* MBBS, MPH, FHKAM(Paed)
Hospital Play Service, Playright Children's Play Association, Hong Kong SAR
KKY Lau (劉嘉茵) BSc in Psychology
PSP Kong (江小萍) B.A. - Pre-primary education
Division of Transplantation and Immunogenetics, Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR
J Kwok (郭少燕) MBBS, PhD, FHKAM(Pathology)
Department of Microbiology, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
KKW To (杜啟泓) MD, FRCPath
Correspondence to: Dr MYW Kwan and Dr P Ip
Email: kwanyw1@ha.org.hk, patricip@hku.hk
Received September 2, 2020
*Co-corresponding authors
†Co-first authors
Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in late December 2019, and escalation of the public hospital infectious disease outbreak response level to the highest "emergency" level three days after two COVID-19 cases were diagnosed on 22 January 2020, all public hospitals implemented a series of isolation policies, rescheduled clinical services and mobilised resources to support frontline clinical staff. This article reviewed these multi-level policies adopted in the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, which have ensured that the healthcare system was not overwhelmed and frontline staff was not over-stressed and infected.
