9 year old child died in hospital, $1.25 short

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translated by me. I don’t know why it’s reported so late

Aug 16th. Mr Zhou, a farmer in Shang Qiu City Henan Province, couldn’t believe even in his dreams, 1st People’s Hospital of Shang Qiu refused to rescue his child just because he was 10 yuan($1.25) short eventually leading to the death his loved 9 year old son.
June 3rd, a child named Zhou Tao from Shang Zhou Henan, died (literal translation: finished his last part of his journey of life) helplessly. According Mrs Guo(maiden name), Zhou Tao’s mother: at 11pm June 2nd when she was ready to go to bed, her son suddenly cried that his stomach hurt badly. She took her son to the ER of 1st People’s Hospital in a hurry. After initial checking, ER doctor(s) asked her to took her son to the surgery on the 2nd floor, when she arrived at the surgery, she found the executive officer on duty was sound asleep. he reluctantly woke up after being called 3 times. he checked the child extremely unpatiently and then pushed them out of the room and sent them back to the ER. completely confused, she hurried to the ER once again. ER doctor(s) said Zhou need an enema immediately but they didn’t know how to perform it and drove them back to the surgery. It was 5am then and Zhou was barely conscious. A doctor finally agreed to perform a enema only on condition that Mrs Guo deposit 100 yuan ($12.5), otherwise he wouldn’t do anything.

Mrs Guo had almost spent all the money she took to the hospital and had only 90 yuan($11.25) remaining. she first asked the doctor if it was possible to waive the 10 yuan, the doctor said it had never been the case and he wouldn’t allow it. she then asked the doctor if it was possible to rescue the child 1st and her relative would come and pay the bill later. the doctor still refused to do anything in reason of not enough money. feeling helpless, Mrs Guo knelt down and begged the doctor, and guaranteed the money would be repaid later. but the doctor was still motionless. it wasn’t until 6:20am Mrs Guo was able to borrow 10 yuan($1.25) from a gatekeeper. the doctor gave Zhou a IV injection but only after it was 1/3 finished, Zhou left this world eternally.

original article hnnews.com.cn/news/20058/10.10728.asp

 

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the report of settlement and other information, it’s very long and this is only an excerpt.
still translated by me

The hospital signed an agreement with Zhou’s family: Hospital compensate the following fees: death fee, emotional damages, traffic fees, burial fee. all add up to 136 000 yuan ($17 000). Zhou mustn’t seek any further compensation nor charge the hospital in court.

a (chinese) lawyer says: In the field of medical disputes, patients tend to settle cases privately. the main reason is currently complicated procedure. first a medical association will verify if it’s a medical accident. if so, the patient or his family will go to court and the verification plays a key role in the whole process. but medical laws is ambiguous and the result is hardly justice. patients are not sure if they can win the case. even if they can win, the compensation are mostly likely not be able to cover the fees of court procedure. It’s obvious that settling the case privately is more convenient and practical.
In the first half of this year, there’re 51 medical accident verification, but none was ruled as a crime by court. stats from Hubei High Court shows 571 medical disputes went to court in 2003, 702 in 2004. but only 1 was ruled as a crime in each year.

The surgeon was first arrested on charge of murder but was then set free on bail. he even went out of the city for a business trip. propaganda minister of Shang Qiu City ruled: no one is allowed to mention the whole incident and police are forbidden to be interviewed by media.

set free on bail means no charge for him since Zhou’s family wouldn’t charge him either.

very effective ruling indeed. 2 months before being reported. I didn’t finish reading the news when I started to translate.

 

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another case, translated by me
Hospital drove recovering patients out, leading to death

Aug 9th. Ms Li had cholecystitis combined with bile duct obstruction. she had an operation at a hospital(original text doesn’t elaberate). After the operation, Li showed signs of improvements. but her body temperature was still unstable. The hospital said there were more patients than beds and sent Li out. 2 days later Li’s health took plunge and she was hospitalized and operated on again. But it wasn’t enough to save Li and she died. a medical association determined it wasn’t a medical accident

Li’s parents took the hospital to court and asked for a compensation of 20000 yuan ($2 500). Court ruled though it wasn’t a medical accident, There’s fault in hospital for sending Li out without first curing her, missing the best chance of treatment. The hospital was 20% responsible for Li’s death.

original text: fzwb.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=6060625
the text above the medic’s head in the drawing in the original text reads “It’s not a medical accident, why still bother?” the text above the couple reads “Aren’t you responsible even if it’s not a medical accident?”

 

[antiaphrodite]

thank you for posting this!!!