The China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing is among toip institutions that have been ordered to rectify their practices. The doctor at the centre of the scandal was a top surgeon at this hospital. - Photo: Handout
BEIJING: Several top university and hospital administrators in China have been held accountable after a noted thoracic surgeon left an anaesthetised patient for over half an hour to confront a nurse in defence of his mistress, a junior doctor.
The punishments respond to widespread public anger over the scandal, which broke in April, as well as questions about hospital management, professional ethics, and accountability within China’s medical institutions.
