{"id":74464,"date":"2025-08-16T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74464\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:26:06","slug":"chinas-top-medical-bosses-taken-to-task-after-doctor-abandons-surgery-to-defend-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74464\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top medical bosses taken to task after doctor abandons surgery to defend mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/trending-china\/article\/3308545\/chinese-surgeon-fired-after-wife-reports-his-affairs-nurse-and-junior-doctor-work?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3293019\/40000-punished-chinas-medical-corruption-crackdown-including-over-350-top-figures?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">questions about<\/a> hospital management, professional ethics, and accountability within China\u2019s medical institutions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The investigation and disciplinary measures helped to restore public confidence in the healthcare sector and medical practitioners, it added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,45933,8589,45934,22850,84,392,45927,45928,45924,45929,45930,45925,45931,45926,45932],"class_list":["post-74464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}