BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese security guard hailed a hero for fighting off a purse snatcher jumped to his death from a 19th-storey hospital window because he couldn't afford treatment, epitomising the failure of China's health care reforms.
The suicide, reported by state media, was not an isolated case. A 42-year-old farmer too poor to afford treatment for lung cancer set off a home-made bomb aboard a bus in Fuzhou, capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, on Aug. 8 in a suicide attack that killed another passenger and wounded 30.
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