Chinese doctor, drunken patient plunge to death in elevator shaft in latest attack on medical staff
Staff at a local hospital in central China took to the streets on Sunday to mourn the death of their colleague, an orthopaedic surgeon who was killed during a row with a drunken patient at the weekend.
Staff at a local hospital in central China took to the streets on Sunday to mourn the death of their colleague, an orthopaedic surgeon who was killed during a row with a drunken patient at the weekend.
Photos circulating on Weibo show a long queue of doctors and nurses in work clothes marching in the streets of Luanchuan with banners that read “Mourn the murdered doctor, Jia Binbin” and “[We] strongly condemn violent attacks on doctors and [demand] the lives of medical staff be protected. “
One banner was signed by “the staff of the People’s Hospital in Luanchuan county,” a local hospital in Henan province where Jia worked as an orthopedic surgeon, before being killed in and accident during the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police said Jia was on duty at the hospital’s orthopaedics department on Saturday when a man named Zhang Yanlong, accompanied by his cousin Li Yulong, arrived for treatment for a broken leg.
A fight broke out between Jia and Li around midnight after Jia went over to warn Li, who was verbally abusing a nurse, not to disturb the other patients.
