Recent Sacking of Hospital Officials in Chinese Province Reveals Rampant Corruption in Medical Field

Recent Sacking of Hospital Officials in Chinese Province Reveals Rampant Corruption in Medical Field
An H7N9 bird flu patient walks in the corridor of a hospital in Bozhou City, in central China's Anhui Province on April 19, 2013. A recent Chinese Communist Party internal investigation has found rampant corruption within the province's medical system. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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Eight hospital officials in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui were recently investigated for corruption, highlighting once again the entrenched culture of corruption within the medical system there.
Chinese media reported on April 26 that Bozhou People’s Hospital President Di Yuzeng, who used his position to aid businesses in selling drugs and equipment to the hospital, was fired and purged from the Chinese Communist Party. He received bribes from those businesses in exchange for helping them.
Annie Wu
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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