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Hospital banned from accepting more patients
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A privately run hospital, which left seven mentally ill patients at a bus station in a city in Guangdong Province, has been banned from accepting more patients, Zhuhai health officials said yesterday, adding that action has been taken against several staff.
The Zhuhai Health Bureau, which confirmed the hospital oversight, ordered the Baiyun Rehabilitation Hospital to downgrade its deputy director Chen Huawei. It also demanded the removal of a doctor surnamed Zhou from his post and that two nurses, Wang and Fan be sacked.
Initial investigation found that Zhou, the hospital’s psychiatric director, neither checked the conditions of the seven patients nor followed procedures as required before he discharged them around noon on Tuesday.
After accompanying them to the bus station in Nancheng District in Dongguan, Wang and Fan left. One of the patients, He Yingying, said nurses should have sent them home, Xinhua news agency said.
Pictures showing the patients, sporting crew-cut hair and simple dressing, sitting on the ground or on seats have gone viral online. Netizens suspected they were abandoned and local residents bought food and water for them.
The patients were at the station for 25 hours until the hospital took them back on Wednesday afternoon, overwhelmed by the media pressure, Xinhua reported.
But He Shaojin, the hospital director, denied that the mentally ill patients were discarded on purpose.
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