Hospitals probed over 'unnecessary' surgery
By Li Xinran |
August 23, 2010, Monday
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TWO women's hospitals in a central China city are being investigated by local health authorities on suspicion of persuading women to have unnecessary surgery after offering them free check-ups.
Hundreds of women from rural areas near Wuhan City, capital of Hubei Province, were sent by local women's federations to Wuhan Oriental Beauty Hospital and Wuhan Contemporary Beauty Hospital for the free checks.
The hospitals told most them that they were suffering from gynecological diseases and needed surgery.
Women from a village in the economic development zone of Hubei's Hanchuan City, told the Yangtze Daily that about 40 of them were sent to the Oriental Beauty Hospital by the village's women's federation director, Chen Muzhi, for free check-ups in April and May.
All were told they needed surgery for cervical erosion, or abnormal cell growth in the cervix.
Most followed doctors' advice to undergo surgery at prices ranging from 900 yuan (US$132) to 1,500 yuan.
Chen said she was told about the free check-ups by someone claiming to be an official from the Wuhan Red Cross.
More than 800 women of childbearing age in Hubei's Yangxin County were sent by the local family planning department to the Contemporary Beauty Hospital for free check-ups.
Most of them were told they had gynecological problems and many spent more than 1,000 yuan on surgery.
Huang Huajiu, deputy director of a state-owned maternity hospital in Hubei's Hanchuan City, said that women diagnosed with cervical erosion at other hospitals had been found by them to be normal and healthy.
Hundreds of women from rural areas near Wuhan City, capital of Hubei Province, were sent by local women's federations to Wuhan Oriental Beauty Hospital and Wuhan Contemporary Beauty Hospital for the free checks.
The hospitals told most them that they were suffering from gynecological diseases and needed surgery.
Women from a village in the economic development zone of Hubei's Hanchuan City, told the Yangtze Daily that about 40 of them were sent to the Oriental Beauty Hospital by the village's women's federation director, Chen Muzhi, for free check-ups in April and May.
All were told they needed surgery for cervical erosion, or abnormal cell growth in the cervix.
Most followed doctors' advice to undergo surgery at prices ranging from 900 yuan (US$132) to 1,500 yuan.
Chen said she was told about the free check-ups by someone claiming to be an official from the Wuhan Red Cross.
More than 800 women of childbearing age in Hubei's Yangxin County were sent by the local family planning department to the Contemporary Beauty Hospital for free check-ups.
Most of them were told they had gynecological problems and many spent more than 1,000 yuan on surgery.
Huang Huajiu, deputy director of a state-owned maternity hospital in Hubei's Hanchuan City, said that women diagnosed with cervical erosion at other hospitals had been found by them to be normal and healthy.
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