{
  "id": 8264784,
  "title": "Patient who needed soft food dies after choking on regular meal at public hospital",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/patient-who-needed-soft-food-dies-after-choking-on-regular-meal-at-8264784",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-18T14:57:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3368066/patient-who-needed-soft-food-dies-after-choking-regular-meal-public-hospital"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A Hong Kong patient died after suffering a heart attack when he was fed a regular meal instead of the required soft food and choked at Prince of Wales Hospital. The public hospital in Sha Tin issued a public apology on Friday and said it had appointed an eight-person panel to look into the blunder. A report, along with recommendations for improvement measures, is expected in eight weeks. The…",
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Patient who needed soft food dies after choking on regular meal at public hospital",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/patient-who-needed-soft-food-dies-after-choking-on-regular-meal-at",
        "published": "2026-09-18T14:57:56.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}