{"id":88511,"date":"2025-10-19T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/88511\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:02:12","slug":"a-perfect-purr-scription-how-pet-doctors-can-help-hong-kong-hospital-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/88511\/","title":{"rendered":"A perfect purr-scription? How \u2018pet doctors\u2019 can help Hong Kong hospital patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One of the greatest wishes of Fung, an elderly patient hospitalised at Hong Kong\u2019s Caritas Medical Centre for the past three months, is to see her pet cat, Silver.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The internal medicine patient said it would be a \u201cprecious memory\u201d if she could be reunited with her 13-year-old calico cat.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI miss Silver very much. My daughter will show me videos, but if I can see it face to face, I can hug and kiss it and say goodbye,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf we can have a final reunion, I can tell it to be obedient and live a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In line with the government\u2019s push to adopt pet-friendly policies, the Hospital Authority announced on Tuesday that it would allow special arrangements for palliative care patients to spend time with their pet cats and dogs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It said it would adopt a more humane approach to be flexible in allowing personal pet visits to wards, especially for patients with impaired mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the greatest wishes of Fung, an elderly patient hospitalised at Hong Kong\u2019s Caritas Medical Centre for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[66917,66918,66914,66922,66919,66921,66920,134,527,4431,66915,111,43,139,69,13499,66916,22069,7457],"class_list":["post-88511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-angela","tag-caritas-medical-centre","tag-doctor-pet","tag-dr-annie-kwok-oi-ling","tag-dr-goofy","tag-fung","tag-goofy","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hong-kong","tag-hospital-authority","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-palliative-care","tag-pet-doctors","tag-scmp","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}