{"id":72943,"date":"2025-08-16T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:03:07","slug":"chinas-top-medical-bosses-taken-to-task-after-doctor-abandons-surgery-to-defend-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72943\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top medical bosses taken to task after doctor abandons surgery to defend mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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>, a junior doctor.The punishments respond to widespread public anger over the scandal, which broke in April, as well as questions about<\/a> hospital management, professional ethics, and accountability within China\u2019s medical institutions.<\/p>\n

A total of 19 officials from five prestigious institutions had been disciplined, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement on Friday. The measures included severe warnings from the ruling Communist Party, disciplinary penalties, demotions and dismissals, it said.<\/p>\n

Party mouthpiece People\u2019s Daily welcomed the move, with a commentary published on Saturday calling the NHC\u2019s handling of the matter \u201cauthoritative and serious\u201d.<\/p>\n

The investigation and disciplinary measures helped to restore public confidence in the healthcare sector and medical practitioners, it added.<\/p>\n

Institutions censured include the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Peking Union Medical College Hospital and the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), which have been ordered to rectify their practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several top university and hospital administrators in China have been held accountable after a noted thoracic surgeon left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,56851,7764,56852,26288,137,500,56846,56847,56843,56848,21723,56844,56849,56845,56850],"class_list":["post-72943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china-japan-friendship-hospital","tag-communist-party","tag-dong-xiying","tag-guangzhou","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-national-health-commission","tag-nhc","tag-peking-union-medical-college","tag-peking-union-medical-college-hospital","tag-peoples-daily","tag-thoracic-surgeon","tag-university-of-science-and-technology-beijing","tag-ustb","tag-xiao-fei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}