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Hospital shut after chopstick murders
Beijing: A hospital in Henan province has been closed to allow for an investigation into its standards after a patient killed three people with a chopstick.
The man, identified as Yang, attacked four female patients at the private Da Zhong Hospital after breaking free from his restraints on Feb 24, according to a statement from the Luoning county government on Tuesday.
One of the women died at the scene, while two others died in hospital from their injuries.
The mental health hospital is “suspected of chaotic management” and has been closed while an investigation team looks into the attack,” the statement said.
It added that two officials in charge of supervising local hospitals have been dismissed.
“The county’s public security authority has placed Yang under criminal coercive measures,” the government said.
Coercive measures may include detention and 24-hour monitoring.
The killings, first reported on Saturday by The Paper, a news website based in Shanghai, happened on the night Yang was admitted to the hospital.
“Yang is a schizophrenic,” The Paper quoted an anonymous source at the hospital as saying.
“He looked potentially dangerous during a health check after he was admitted, so we treated him as a priority patient.”
Yang refused to take his medication or meals, and had to be fastened to his bed with restraints, the source said.
On Tuesday, a video clip of the attack taken by one of the hospital’s surveillance cameras began to spread on social media.
In the video, a man believed to be Yang is lying on a hospital bed and appears to free his hands from his restraints at 8.21pm.
Seven minutes later, he picks up a chopstick from a nearby table and walks off-camera into another room shared by two of the victims.
He then returns to the room about 30 seconds later and is seen stabbing two other women in the head. — China Daily/Asia News Network
Hospital shut after chopstick murders
Beijing: A hospital in Henan province has been closed to allow for an investigation into its standards after a patient killed three people with a chopstick.
The man, identified as Yang, attacked four female patients at the private Da Zhong Hospital after breaking free from his restraints on Feb 24, according to a statement from the Luoning county government on Tuesday.
One of the women died at the scene, while two others died in hospital from their injuries.
The mental health hospital is “suspected of chaotic management” and has been closed while an investigation team looks into the attack,” the statement said.
It added that two officials in charge of supervising local hospitals have been dismissed.
“The county’s public security authority has placed Yang under criminal coercive measures,” the government said.
Coercive measures may include detention and 24-hour monitoring.
The killings, first reported on Saturday by The Paper, a news website based in Shanghai, happened on the night Yang was admitted to the hospital.
“Yang is a schizophrenic,” The Paper quoted an anonymous source at the hospital as saying.
“He looked potentially dangerous during a health check after he was admitted, so we treated him as a priority patient.”
Yang refused to take his medication or meals, and had to be fastened to his bed with restraints, the source said.
On Tuesday, a video clip of the attack taken by one of the hospital’s surveillance cameras began to spread on social media.
In the video, a man believed to be Yang is lying on a hospital bed and appears to free his hands from his restraints at 8.21pm.
Seven minutes later, he picks up a chopstick from a nearby table and walks off-camera into another room shared by two of the victims.
He then returns to the room about 30 seconds later and is seen stabbing two other women in the head. — China Daily/Asia News Network
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