Hospital in scandal over student’s death closes
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A CHINESE military hospital, embroiled in a scandal over the death of a college student who had sought experimental cancer treatment at the facility, has temporarily closed its doors to new patients.
The Second Hospital of Beijing Armed Police Corps has stopped new admissions, the People’s Daily said yesterday in a post on its official microblog, a day after the health ministry launched an investigation into the hospital.
Wei Zexi, 21, died last month of a rare form of cancer. He had gone to the hospital for treatment after finding information about it on search engine Baidu, which is also being probed over the case.
“Due to the hospital undergoing education and rectification, we will from today temporarily suspend all external services,” including emergency, outpatient and inpatient services, the hospital said in the notice posted by the People’s Daily.
China’s paramilitary police, which ran the hospital, said it would cooperate fully with the investigation.
In a statement released on the Chinese military’s news website (www.81.cn), the People’s Armed Police said it paid great attention to Wei’s case and had sent its own team to the hospital.
“Problems that are discovered will be seriously investigated and handled in accordance with the law, and there will be no compromises,” it said, without elaborating.
Wei searched Baidu for the best place for treatment, finding a department under the hospital that offered an experimental treatment, but which ultimately failed.
Before he died, Wei accused Baidu of promoting false medical information and the hospital for misleading advertisements that claimed a high success rate for the treatment, state radio said.
Baidu said in a statement it deeply regretted Wei’s death and would cooperate fully with the investigation.
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