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...Pennypacker as a “really open community.” Situated furthest from the Yard, Pennypacker, with its central staircase and college-style corridors, forced neighbors to befriend one another. “Packcest is a term that we often use,” laughs Emily S. Wu...
...hero to all of us," says longtime friend, Wu Feng-ying, who worked alongside Chen at Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital, where Chen contracted the virus. Bowing to public sentiment, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou has decreed that Chen's name be added to the list on the Martyrs' Shrine...
...Wu Feng-ying, nurses' supervisor in Hoping's chronic-disease ward, says she saw no evidence of a deliberate cover-up. In her view, the real problem was that "in the early days, the criteria for diagnosing SARS were unclear." Indeed, Wu now suspects her friend and colleague nurse Chen Ching-chiu contracted SARS while trying to resuscitate a patient who was only later discovered to have had the disease...
...Attending the memorial service of nurse Chen on Friday, Hoping's superintendent Wu Kang-wen denied playing any part in a cover-up, adding that "the truth will come out when the investigators' findings are released." In the meantime, the hospital has been fined $75,000 for its failure to report SARS cases earlier, and it remains closed. As for nurse Wang, she claims to feel no guilt about leaving her post. "Yes, we have a duty of care to our patients. But built into that duty there is a precondition that our safety needs are being...
...Joseph Wu, Chen's deputy secretary-general, pointed out that some of the hospitals suffering the worst outbreaks are under the direct control of the local Taipei government. But he acknowledged Chen's Cabinet ministers "should have reacted more quickly to the situation and been more decisive in telling hospitals what to do." Indeed, the island's Health Minister may have been sacked partly because he failed to heed calls by the city government to declare SARS an infectious disease, which resulted in complacency among medical staff...