Chinese hospital installs security checkpoint after Beijing doctor murder
- Hospital in southern city of Nanning acts on order to screen visitors following several attacks on medics nationwide
- More than 10 knives found being taken into the hospital on first day of checks
Footage published on Wednesday by online video platform Pear Video showed that people entering Nanning No 2 People’s Hospital in Nanning, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, had to go through a narrow gate for a security check.
One uniformed officer stood in front of it and two were stationed on the inside of the gate, along with a scanner to check the belongings of everyone entering.
It came after Yang Wen, a doctor, was stabbed in the neck on Christmas Eve following a row with the relatives of a 95-year-old stroke victim at the Civil Aviation General Hospital in Beijing. She died the next day.
“According to the local health commissions, there have been recent cases of [people] injuring doctors, so their instructions are that top hospitals need to install checkpoints,” Tang Chenyan, the Nanning hospital’s deputy director, said in the Pear Video report. He said separate lanes for emergency patients would remain open.