Doctor critical after stabbing
By Dong Zhen |
April 14, 2012, Saturday
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A doctor at a hospital in Beijing was stabbed and seriously injured by an unidentified assailant while she was receiving patients yesterday morning.
The attack took place at 10:30am at the Peking University People's Hospital. The assailant escaped and was still at large yesterday afternoon, according to the hospital.
The victim Xing Zhimin, an ear-nose-throat physician, was treating outpatients when attacked. She took a gash to the right side of her neck, and the vein was severed, hospital officials said. Xing lost nearly a liter of blood and emergency surgery was completed by noon, according to the hospital authority.
Doctors said the surgery was successful, but Xing was still in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
The hospital did not know whether the assailant was a patient, and the motive for the attack also remained unknown. The hospital shut down its outpatient service at the ENT department out of safety concern after the attack.
It was the second knife attack against doctors in recent weeks in China. A young man was arrested for killing a medical intern and seriously injuring three other doctors on March 23 in a hospital in Harbin, capital of northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province.
He held a grudge over the treatment schemes proposed by the hospital and started the random attack.
All the victims were unrelated to his treatment plan.
A spate of violence by patients and their relatives have taken place in Chinese hospitals in recent years.
The attack took place at 10:30am at the Peking University People's Hospital. The assailant escaped and was still at large yesterday afternoon, according to the hospital.
The victim Xing Zhimin, an ear-nose-throat physician, was treating outpatients when attacked. She took a gash to the right side of her neck, and the vein was severed, hospital officials said. Xing lost nearly a liter of blood and emergency surgery was completed by noon, according to the hospital authority.
Doctors said the surgery was successful, but Xing was still in critical condition in the intensive care unit.
The hospital did not know whether the assailant was a patient, and the motive for the attack also remained unknown. The hospital shut down its outpatient service at the ENT department out of safety concern after the attack.
It was the second knife attack against doctors in recent weeks in China. A young man was arrested for killing a medical intern and seriously injuring three other doctors on March 23 in a hospital in Harbin, capital of northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province.
He held a grudge over the treatment schemes proposed by the hospital and started the random attack.
All the victims were unrelated to his treatment plan.
A spate of violence by patients and their relatives have taken place in Chinese hospitals in recent years.
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