On Friday about 40 of those quarantined at the hospital angrily protested at their confinement and gave a highly negative picture of the living conditions they had to put up with, including a lack of food.
Chen said that some of her colleagues who had tried to escape from the hospital Friday felt regrets about their actions.
Chiu stressed that the authorities were trying to separate those among the quarantined infected with SARS from those who were not, but that this was time-consuming and could not be done with the resources available to the hospital alone.
"We do not have enough doctors who are familiar with SARS inside the hospital. We need to form a SARS treatment team, but this cannot be done by the Hoping Hospital or Taipei City Government single-handedly. We need support from the central government and international society," Ou said.
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