Woman arrested for attack on pregnant nurse, doctor
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A WOMAN in central China’s Hunan Province has been arrested for allegedly leading family members in an attack on a doctor and a pregnant nurse after a relative died in their care.
This is the latest case of violence against medics that has shocked the nation.
The public security bureau of Changsha, capital of Hunan, said in a statement that a 45-year-old woman, surnamed Ouyang, had been arrested for her role in the assaults in the early hours of last Monday.
The victims of the violence at the First Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine were a female doctor and a nurse who is five months pregnant.
The hospital said the doctor suffered bruises and concussion and the nurse reported signs of a threatened miscarriage.
But police cited a forensic report as saying the injuries the two medics sustained did not constitute slight injuries.
Officers said Ouyang and other relatives of a lung cancer patient attacked the doctor and the nurse as they were dissatisfied with emergency treatment he received.
After the patient died, Ouyang forced the 29-year-old doctor to kneel before the body for several minutes.
Police said Ouyang was unemployed but did not reveal the identities of other attackers.
The nurse said one attacker claimed to be a civil servant.
China has seen a spate of attacks on medical staff in recent years amid strained patient-doctor relations.
Chinese patients often accuse doctors of rushing consultations and prescribing too many drugs, while doctors complain of overwork, low pay and misunderstandings with the public.
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