Hong Kong Spends $5.75 Million A Year on Idle Pandemic Makeshift Hospitals

The government of Hong Kong is spending HK$3.75 million ($478,800) a month to maintain the makeshift hospitals built during the Covid pandemic, Health Secretary Thomas Chan Chung-ching told lawmakers Wednesday.

The six isolation facilities are to be converted for non-medical purposes use in the near future.

The six facilities are located in Hung Shui Kiu, Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities Island of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Fanling, Penny's Bay, the runway area of Kai Tak and the Lok Ma Chau Loop. None has yet been converted despite the pandemic ending more than a year ago.