China’s Pay Up or Die Health-Care System
“Some 2,000 people mobbed and ransacked a hospital in southwestern China on Friday in a dispute over medical fees and shoddy health care practices,” a human rights group said today. At least ten people were injured when police broke up the demonstration at Guang’an City No. 2 People’s Hospital, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy. The area was described as under tight police control today, with at least five people detained on suspicion of instigating a riot. The unrest erupted after a three-year-old boy died in the hospital, where he had been rushed for emergency treatment for ingesting pesticides.... The human rights group said that essential medical care ...
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