Patients in Huangpi Hospital Left Unattended

3/6/2020
Updated:
7/23/2020

Location: Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China Date: March 4, 2020

Background: In Huangpi District People’s Hospital of Wuhan, a COVID-19 patient posted a video showing that there was no medical staff taking care of patients in the coronavirus quarantine zone in the evening. - Man: (Unclear, because of the mask) Man in the background: So you tried to look for a doctor, but no one is taking care of this matter, right?

This is Huangpi District People’s Hospital, COVID-19 patients’ zone on the 13th floor. No medical staff is here at all, not even nurses. We cannot find a medic if we need help, there’s no doctor on duty. This patient feels that he cannot hold on much longer, he wants to leave. No one comes to take care of him. I am not feeling well either. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., we could not reach any doctors. This is the situation in Huangpi District People’s Hospital. These are COVID-19 patients. Even if we cry to heaven and earth, there will be no response. We patients here, will not get any response even if we cry to heaven. No one takes care of us at all.

Man in black: No one showed so far! I haven’t taken a shower yet, and I haven’t had dinner yet. -

This video was posted on WeChat on the evening of March 4. The next day, hospital authorities said that the video damaged the reputation of the hospital and the case has been reported to the local police. They also claimed that police concluded from their investigation that the video is spreading fake news and the person taking the video will be punished accordingly.