18 punished over missing boy鈥檚 death
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Eighteen people have been punished for their involvement in the case of a 12-year-old boy with learning difficulties who died in hospital six months after going missing in central China鈥檚 Henan Province.
Wang Zhiqiang disappeared from his home in Xinyang, Henan, on October 2 last year. Though police found the boy the following day they were unable to identify him, and so put him in a care home, the local publicity department said in a statement yesterday.
After five months in the facility, the boy fell ill and was taken to the Xinyang No. 1 People鈥檚 Hospital, where he passed away on April 18.
An autopsy showed the child had died of multiple organ failure. He was also found to have been suffering from tuberculosis and severe malnutrition.
Only when his obituary was published in a newspaper did his parents find out what had happened to their son.
Following an investigation, three doctors from the emergency department at the hospital were given administrative punishments for failing to properly care for the boy, the statement said.
Two officials from the rescue station where the boy was taken were removed from their posts for failing to follow due process, while another station official and the deputy director of the city鈥檚 civil affairs bureau received administrative punishments.
Ten police officials were warned or received demerits, while a police operator who failed to properly respond to a missing person call from the boy鈥檚 parents was fired, the statement said.
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