Patient on trial over fatal attack on hospital doctor
By Zhao Wen |
July 26, 2012, Thursday
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A MAN charged with murdering a doctor and injuring three others at a hospital in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, went on trial at the city's intermediate people's court yesterday.
The court heard that Wang Hao, a 28-year-old intern, died when 17-year-old Li Mengnan broke into the office of the rheumatism immunity department of the No. 1 Hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University and cut him on the neck with a knife.
Three other doctors were injured during the attack, the court heard.
The court was told that Li told an earlier investigation that he held a grudge about his medical treatment at the hospital and carried out the attack in revenge.
Li was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis which most often affects the spine, and stayed in the hospital for a week in April 2011. In March this year, Li visited the hospital for a review and asked for a specific drug, Remicade.
But Zhao Yanping, Li's doctor and deputy chief of the department, said Li's tuberculosis need to be treated first as the drug would have side-effects on his lungs.
Li thought this meant Zhao didn't want to handle his case and, angered at this, bought a knife, went back to the hospital and attacked the doctors, the court heard.
"I came to the hospital for the purpose of getting Remicade treatment, but they didn't give it to me," Li told Xinhua news agency before yesterday's hearing.
During the court proceedings, Wang's parents asked for compensation of 864,400 yuan (US$135,292).
Prosecutors didn't call for a specific sentence but said that Li, if found guilty, could receive a lighter sentence since he was 17 at the time of the alleged offense.
Li celebrated his 18th birthday in detention in May.
The court didn't announce a verdict in the case yesterday.
The court heard that Wang Hao, a 28-year-old intern, died when 17-year-old Li Mengnan broke into the office of the rheumatism immunity department of the No. 1 Hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University and cut him on the neck with a knife.
Three other doctors were injured during the attack, the court heard.
The court was told that Li told an earlier investigation that he held a grudge about his medical treatment at the hospital and carried out the attack in revenge.
Li was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis which most often affects the spine, and stayed in the hospital for a week in April 2011. In March this year, Li visited the hospital for a review and asked for a specific drug, Remicade.
But Zhao Yanping, Li's doctor and deputy chief of the department, said Li's tuberculosis need to be treated first as the drug would have side-effects on his lungs.
Li thought this meant Zhao didn't want to handle his case and, angered at this, bought a knife, went back to the hospital and attacked the doctors, the court heard.
"I came to the hospital for the purpose of getting Remicade treatment, but they didn't give it to me," Li told Xinhua news agency before yesterday's hearing.
During the court proceedings, Wang's parents asked for compensation of 864,400 yuan (US$135,292).
Prosecutors didn't call for a specific sentence but said that Li, if found guilty, could receive a lighter sentence since he was 17 at the time of the alleged offense.
Li celebrated his 18th birthday in detention in May.
The court didn't announce a verdict in the case yesterday.
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