More Diapers Please
Such are the trials of Hong Kong’s latest baby boom–one with a cross-border twist. Over the past two years so many mainland women have flocked into the territory to give birth in the city’s public hospitals that Hong Kong maternity wards now resemble emergency rooms. Deliveries to what the Hospital Authority deems “noneligible” persons now constitute roughly one third of total births in public hospitals, a figure that’s expected to surpass 20,000 in the fiscal year ending in March....