It was supposed to be a simple surgery for Mr. Zhou’s 63-year-old mother, at Weixian People’s Hospital in Xingtai City, Hebei Province. When she fell from her electric bicycle, she sustained a bone fracture in her right leg, which required a steel plate to hold the bones in place. But after the surgery, she had nonstop pain. Four months later, Zhou brought his mother back to the hospital, and unintentionally, a corruption scandal was revealed.
On Nov. 1, Chinese media outlet Jiangxi News Net reported that the steel plate had split in half and become embedded in her flesh. The surgery was initially successful, but the steel plate had later broken.
