"Once a hospital bed is slept in, a year’s harvest is lost"

Health-care despair in China. The USA Today with a nice article:

Ye Yuanxi, a forensic medicine specialist and director of an independent medical institute in Chongqing, fights to expose abuses. His desk is piled high with malpractice complaints, including the case of Huang Tingyu, 4, who broke her thigh bone in a fall in June 2005. The girl’s parents were charged $2,500 for her treatment because doctors kept ordering expensive procedures, Ye says.

“This little girl had 34 X-rays in 53 days, sometimes four a day,” he says. Radiation “will do long-term damage to her, but the hospital did not care about her health, only about profit.” Ye declined to identify the hospital in Chongqing, for fear of reprisals.

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