Babies, fetuses found floating in river
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March 31, 2010, Wednesday
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Two hospital staffers have been detained by police after at least 21 fetuses and baby bodies were found dumped in a river in east China's Jining City, local government officials said yesterday.
Eight of the 21 bodies had tabs with clinic code numbers attached to their feet. The tabs showed the bodies were from the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University.
The bodies were recovered by local residents and firemen on Monday after being discovered under a bridge spanning the Guangfu River on the outskirts of Jining.
Mortuary workers Zhu Zhenyu and Wang Zhijun were sacked by the hospital and detained by police, Gong Zhenhua, a city government spokesman, told a news conference late yesterday.
"Investigations by police and health authorities show that Zhu and Wang had reached verbal agreements privately with relatives of the dead babies to dispose the bodies and charged fees," Gong said.
"They subsequently transported the bodies secretly to the Guangfu River, but they had failed to bury the bodies completely," he said.
The director and deputy director of the hospital's Logistics Department were removed from their posts, and a vice president of the hospital was suspended, according to Gong.
Meanwhile, the government ordered the Jining Municipal Health Bureau to offer a public apology, he said.
"The incident ... exposes a serious loophole in the hospital's management and indicates a lack of ethics and legal awareness of some hospital staffers," he said. "It exerts a very negative impact on society and teaches us a profound lesson."
Eight of the 21 bodies had tabs with clinic code numbers attached to their feet. The tabs showed the bodies were from the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University.
The bodies were recovered by local residents and firemen on Monday after being discovered under a bridge spanning the Guangfu River on the outskirts of Jining.
Mortuary workers Zhu Zhenyu and Wang Zhijun were sacked by the hospital and detained by police, Gong Zhenhua, a city government spokesman, told a news conference late yesterday.
"Investigations by police and health authorities show that Zhu and Wang had reached verbal agreements privately with relatives of the dead babies to dispose the bodies and charged fees," Gong said.
"They subsequently transported the bodies secretly to the Guangfu River, but they had failed to bury the bodies completely," he said.
The director and deputy director of the hospital's Logistics Department were removed from their posts, and a vice president of the hospital was suspended, according to Gong.
Meanwhile, the government ordered the Jining Municipal Health Bureau to offer a public apology, he said.
"The incident ... exposes a serious loophole in the hospital's management and indicates a lack of ethics and legal awareness of some hospital staffers," he said. "It exerts a very negative impact on society and teaches us a profound lesson."
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