Families provide care at live-in hospital

A hospital in Harbin offers relatives of brain-injured patients a chance to provide personal care in a homelike setting with family rooms and a communal kitchen.

Thirty rooms in the brain injury recovery center at Heilongjiang Rehabilitation Hospital are set aside for patients who are in a vegetative state and require two people to look after each of them night and day.

Most family members choose to leave their homes and move to the hospital in the capital of Heilongjiang province to give their relatives the best possible chance of recovery.