Precautions in ophthalmic practice in a hospital with a major acute SARS outbreak: an experience from Hong Kong

Sir,

Chan et al¹ report their experience in ophthalmic practice during an outbreak of SARS. First of all I would like to point out the authors’ wrong affirmation on two issues. Firstly, their hospital was not the only one in Hong Kong, not to say in the world, that had gone through the largest outbreak of SARS. Our hospital, which has an Ophthalmology Department, admitted more than 100 suspect and probable SARS cases during the outbreak in 2003. Secondly, they claimed that ophthalmologists in Hong Kong had abandoned direct ophthalmoscopy. I wonder if they have ever taken a survey to make such a comment. Many ophthalmologists in Hong Kong have been and are still using direct ophthalmoscope.

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