The howls of a young man who had dislocated his knee during one of the many street clashes of the six-month-long Hong Kong protest movement still haunt Alvin, a Chinese medicine practitioner who treated his discomfort.
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“I remember him because he screamed so painfully. He sounded like those chickens in a slaughterhouse, ready to be killed,” he said.
Despite the excruciating agony, the patient had not dared to head to a hospital emergency room, for fear of being arrested and charged with rioting, a crime which carries a jail sentence of up to ten years.
Instead he turned to one of several so-called “hidden clinics” that the city’s medical professionals have quietly formed to secretly treat the…
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