BBC News Top Stories-World China Outrage over doctor punching patient during surgery
December 22, 2023 2 min 421 words
这则报道揭示了中国一家医院内发生的医疗丑闻，手术中医生竟然殴打患者，引发社交媒体上的强烈愤慨。虽然医院声称患者因手术中的局部麻醉而表现不耐烦，但医生对患者的暴力行为令人震惊。更令人担忧的是，医院管理层竟然在2019年的事件后未及时报告总部，这严重失职。虽然医院对涉事医生和CEO做出了停职和解雇处理，但仍然暴露了中国医疗体系中管理和监督方面的问题。这事件引发了公众对医疗安全的担忧，呼吁强化医疗行业监管，确保患者权益得到有效保障。
Chinese authorities are investigating a hospital over an incident where a surgeon allegedly punched the patient he was operating on at the time.
It was captured in a clip that went viral on Chinese social media this week, sparking outrage online.
The hospital's parent group, Aier China, has suspended the surgeon and dismissed the CEO of the hospital where the incident took place in 2019.
The BBC has contacted Aier China for comment.
The video appears to show the surgeon punching a patient in the head at least three times while operating on their eyes.
Aier China, which operates a chain of eye hospitals, said the incident took place during an operation in its hospital in Guigang, a southwestern Chinese city.
The patient was an 82-year-old woman and "during the surgery, due to local anaesthesia, the patient had intolerance". She moved her head and eyeballs multiple times, according to their statement.
As the patient could only speak a local dialect and did not appear to respond to the doctor's warnings in Mandarin, the surgeon "treated the patient roughly in an emergency situation". Local authorities say the patient sustained bruises on her forehead.
After the surgery, the hospital's management apologised and paid 500 yuan ($70, £55) as compensation, according to the patient's son who spoke to local media outlets. He also said his mother is now blind in her left eye, though it is not clear whether it was due to the incident.
Aier China said the hospital failed to report the incident to headquarters. On Thursday it announced the dismissal of the Guiyang hospital CEO and the suspension of the surgeon - who is also the hospital dean - over "serious violations of the group's regulations", which included other unspecified offences.
Though the incident took place in December 2019, it only came to the public's attention this week after a prominent Chinese doctor, Ai Fen, shared CCTV footage of the surgery.
Dr Ai, who was among a group of doctors who alerted the public to the initial Wuhan Covid outbreak, had posted the clip on her Weibo account where she has more than two million followers.
Dr Ai has been embroiled in legal disputes with Aier China since 2021 when she went for an operation at one of their hospitals . She has claimed she nearly became blind in one eye due to that operation, but Aier China has denied the allegation.