Posted on 07/07/2022 10:38:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion (S$2.1 billion) hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because it was unable to pay its debts.
For most of the last two years, the Fuyang Minsheng Hospital had been fully involved in mass Covid-19 vaccination and testing programmes in the city, training almost 100 staff to perform throat swabs and setting up mobile vaccination facilities to go to schools and workplaces, at the order of city officials.
The diversion of resources into what China calls its zero-Covid approach to contain and eliminate the virus forced the hospital to suspend many services it relied upon for revenue, sealing its financial failure.
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