We want to get out of Hoping Hospital and we don’t want to wait for death,” one sign read. Banners crying for help are hung from the windows of the locked down Hoping Hospital in April 2003 during the SARS epidemic. The move came after seven hospital staff came down with possible SARS symptoms on April 22. Banners crying for help are hung from the windows of the locked down Hoping Hospital in April 2003 during the SARS epidemic. According to CNN, it took the WHO seven weeks after Taiwan’s first SARS infection and after the Hoping Hospital lockdown to send experts to the nation.
