Members of mob that abused doctor surrender to police
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TWO people from a mob that frogmarched a young doctor around a hospital’s grounds chanting that he had killed a patient have handed themselves in to police.
More than 100 people paraded the medic around the Chaozhou Central Hospital compound in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, on Wednesday.
The protest at 1pm came hours after a 37-year-old man, surnamed Ke, died while receiving emergency treatment there.
He lost consciousness after reportedly drinking a large quantity of alcohol and died at the hospital at 2:50am on Wednesday.
Ke’s relatives questioned the treatment he received.
They asked for 100,000 yuan (US$16,340) compensation but the hospital refused, the city’s publicity department said.
The family gathered some 100 people, found the doctor who was on duty on Tuesday night, then paraded him around the compound, said Chaozhou Daily.
It was reported that as they marched the mob chanted, “It was this doctor who killed the patient.”
Photographs showed the young medic, in his doctor’s uniform, in tears. His ordeal lasted 30 minutes before he was released.
Officials said the parade attracted many onlookers, disturbing the running of the hospital.
Police were called and normal services resumed at 8pm.
Zero tolerance
Li Bin, head of China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission, yesterday said there must be zero tolerance of violence toward medical professionals.
“Doctors aren’t God and they can’t cure every condition,” Li told The Beijing News.
High charges, uneven resources, overstretched hospitals and lack of communication have fueled doctor-patient conflict.
The Chinese Hospital Association studies said every hospital in China witnessed on average around 27 attacks on medics in 2012 — more than one a fortnight — compared with less than 21 attacks in 2008.
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