Female physician hacked to death with axe
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November 30, 2012, Friday
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A FEMALE doctor was hacked to death with an axe in a hospital in north China's Tianjin Municipality yesterday.
Kang Hongqian, around 40 years old, was attacked around 1:30pm by an axe-wielding man in her clinic on the second floor of the No. 1 Hospital affiliated with the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, police said.
The middle-aged attacker, whose identity had not been confirmed by late yesterday, was injured when he jumped out of the building to flee after the attack. He was in custody.
Kang, on duty when she was killed, was a chief doctor with the department of acupuncture at the hospital.
Police are investigating the cause of the attack.
Online posts said the victim "was a quite nice person and was responsible in dealing with patients." The doctor's picture was posted on Weibo.com.
The attack is likely to further erode relations between doctors and patients in China.
Mistrust has grown between overworked and relatively poorly paid Chinese doctors and their patients, who are faced with high medical bills and are not satisfied with brief consultations.
In the eastern city of Hefei in Anhui Province, a man stabbed five doctors and nurses on November 13. One head nurse who was hacked on her neck died.
The man was caught by the police. It was reported that the man held grudges because the hospital stopped treating him because he cannot afford to pay the medical bill.
In September, a man armed with four knives injured four people at a hospital in Shenzhen before he was seized by police.
In one of the most notorious cases, a teenager stabbed a doctor to death and injured three others at a hospital in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province in March.
The man convicted in the case, sentenced to life in prison last month, said he attacked the medical workers because he believed they denied him treatment because he is poor.
After the case, some hospitals started to require nurses and doctors to wear protective gear and posted more guards.
A survey of nearly 6,000 physicians in 3,300 hospitals in China by consulting firm McKinsey & Co said 59 percent of doctors claimed to have been verbally assaulted by a patient or family member and 6 percent said they have been physically assaulted by patients.
Kang Hongqian, around 40 years old, was attacked around 1:30pm by an axe-wielding man in her clinic on the second floor of the No. 1 Hospital affiliated with the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, police said.
The middle-aged attacker, whose identity had not been confirmed by late yesterday, was injured when he jumped out of the building to flee after the attack. He was in custody.
Kang, on duty when she was killed, was a chief doctor with the department of acupuncture at the hospital.
Police are investigating the cause of the attack.
Online posts said the victim "was a quite nice person and was responsible in dealing with patients." The doctor's picture was posted on Weibo.com.
The attack is likely to further erode relations between doctors and patients in China.
Mistrust has grown between overworked and relatively poorly paid Chinese doctors and their patients, who are faced with high medical bills and are not satisfied with brief consultations.
In the eastern city of Hefei in Anhui Province, a man stabbed five doctors and nurses on November 13. One head nurse who was hacked on her neck died.
The man was caught by the police. It was reported that the man held grudges because the hospital stopped treating him because he cannot afford to pay the medical bill.
In September, a man armed with four knives injured four people at a hospital in Shenzhen before he was seized by police.
In one of the most notorious cases, a teenager stabbed a doctor to death and injured three others at a hospital in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province in March.
The man convicted in the case, sentenced to life in prison last month, said he attacked the medical workers because he believed they denied him treatment because he is poor.
After the case, some hospitals started to require nurses and doctors to wear protective gear and posted more guards.
A survey of nearly 6,000 physicians in 3,300 hospitals in China by consulting firm McKinsey & Co said 59 percent of doctors claimed to have been verbally assaulted by a patient or family member and 6 percent said they have been physically assaulted by patients.
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