Doctor attacked in Beijing hospital

15:58, January 20, 2020

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  Beijing prosecutors approve arrest of doctor attacker

  (File photo: qq.com)Beijing’sprosecuting authority has approved the arrest of a man who stabbed four people in a hospital earlier this week, said an official statement on Wednesday.Cui Zhenguo, 36,useda kitchen knife in the Chaoyang Hospital on Monday, injuring three medical workers and a mother of a young patient before being stopped by the police.Cui was charged with intentional homicide.The Chaoyang police authority said thevictimssuffered no life-threatening injuries and are receiving medical treatment.

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  Beijing reinforces doctors' safety following hospital stabbing death

  File photoBEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinas capital city will improve the doctor-patient communication mechanism to ensure the safety of medical staff and create an orderly hospital environment, according to Mayor Chen Jining.In his government work report delivered at the annual session of the municipal peoples congress on Sunday, the mayor said the city will continue to advance the Healthy Beijing Initiative.Protecting the safety of medical workers and maintaining an orderly hospital environment is one of the tasks of the initiative, which includes the building of a life-cycle health service system that shifts from disease treatment to health promotion. Medical professionals are important and indispensable builders of the initiative.At the end of 2019, a case involving the murder of a doctor in a hospital in Beijing raised concerns among medical staff and the public. Yang Wen, who was working at the emergency room, was stabbed by Sun Wenbin, a patients relative. The doctor later died from the serious injury to her neck.Li Haichao, a Beijing political advisor and also vice president of Peking University First Hospital, said doctor-patient disputes may lead medical professionals to be disappointed, or even to quit their jobs, which will eventually affect the medical experience of patients and even the meeting of basic medical needs, thus having a serious adverse effect on the implementation of the Healthy Beijing Initiative.After the accident, the Chinese Medical Doctor Association called for the protection of medical professionals.Wang Zhen, an emergency specialist from Beijing Shijitan Hospital, has spent the past 31 Spring Festival holidays treating patients in the emergency room.As the director from the department of emergency medicine and also a Beijing political advisor, she noted that medical safety not only involves the safety of patients, but also the safety of people who come to see and cure these patients.She said hospitals are the homes o...