Tough line on attacks in hospitals
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CHINA will severely punish people who insult medical workers or set up shrines to late patients in hospitals, according to a guideline issued yesterday.
Jointly released by the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, under the guideline six types of criminal conduct disrupting medical work will be severely punished.
“For some time, crimes such as assaulting doctors and damaging hospitals have been occurring in some regions,” said SPC spokesman Sun Jungong of rising doctor-patient tensions in China.
There have been cases of families setting up shrines in hospitals, especially when they believe staff negligence led to the deaths of loved ones.
The guideline aims to crack down on and prevent such crimes in a bid to maintain medical treatment order and guarantee rights for both patients and doctors, Sun said.
The six crimes it specifies include attacking doctors and damaging public property, setting up shrines and burning paper money (a Chinese custom for paying respect to the dead) in medical institutions, restricting doctors’ freedom, insulting medical workers, entering medical institutions with illegal arms, and instigating others to commit crimes against medical staff.
Those whose conduct constitutes criminality will be punished in accordance with the law, under the guideline.
The guideline also urged medical institutions to create convenient channels for patients to file complaints.
Where medical institutions are sued, courts are urged to handle cases in a timely manner.
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