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Turning a blind eye to the increasingly rampant outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic on the island of Taiwan, with new local cases growth at a record high, the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority has yet to waver in its pursuit of secessionism and profits at the cost of Taiwan residents lives, as it refuses to adopt the universal measures used by the Chinese mainland, which had proved effective in taming the outbreak in the mainland, observers said on Thursday.
Hospital beds in southern areas will be made available after hospitals in northern Taiwan asked to divert patients, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said at a national COVID-19 pandemic prevention meeting yesterday.
National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) superintendent Wu Ming-shiang (吳明賢) on Wednesday wrote on Facebook that the hospital had no more room for inpatients after an influx of more than 100, including 20 who were severely ill.
Despite telling the Taipei Fire Department that it had no more beds, people are still being wheeled into its emergency room with the expectation that they would be admitted to an intensive care
AI tech helps Taiwan doctors identify brain tumors more accurately
05/04/2021 10:48 PM
NTUH oncologist Hsu Feng-ming. CNA photo May 4, 2021
Taipei, May 4 (CNA) A technology that uses artificial intelligence has helped doctors at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) identify tiny brain tumors which could easily have been missed by traditional manual contouring, the hospital said Tuesday.
At a press conference, NTUH Superintendent Wu Ming-shiang (吳明賢) described VBrain, a brain tumor auto-contouring system developed by Boston-based Vysioneer LLC, as an eagle eye.
The system has been used at NTUH for the past 18 months as part of clinical trials and helped doctors treat more than 100 patients with brain tumors, including a terminally ill woman whose lung cancer metastasized to her brain.
Dr. Wu Ming-shiang (吳明賢), National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH, 台大醫院) superintendent, said on Friday that he will receive a shot of the first batch AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.