{"id":1215358,"date":"2022-01-13T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215358"},"modified":"2022-01-13T22:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:50:25","slug":"china-locked-down-xian-shuts-down-hospitals-for-letting-non-coronavirus-patients-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-locked-down-xian-shuts-down-hospitals-for-letting-non-coronavirus-patients-die\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Locked-Down Xi&#039;an Shuts Down Hospitals for Letting Non-Coronavirus Patients Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-locked-down-xian-shuts-down-hospitals-for-letting-non-coronavirus-patients-die%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Chinese state propaganda outlet&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1245837.shtml\">reported<\/a> on Thursday that authorities in the locked-down metropolis of Xi\u2019an had shut down two hospitals for three months, despite the Chinese coronavirus situation there being so severe that authorities largely ban people from leaving their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The two hospitals \u2014 Xi\u2019an Gaoxin Hospital and Xi\u2019an International Medical Center Hospital \u2014 were implicated in separate cases of patients enduring severe health conditions losing their lives because the hospitals refused to treat them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWith a weak sense of responsibility, both hospitals failed to fulfill their duty to rescue the wounded and save lives, and failed to implement the core system of medical quality management,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times <\/em>condemned<em>,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201csuch as first diagnosis responsibility and emergency treatment to critically ill patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state newspaper reported ominously that the Xi\u2019an Health Commission would require the hospitals to undergo \u201crectification\u201d for at least three months, and they cannot open until the commission, part of the Communist Party government, deemed its protocol sufficiently improved. The individuals in charge of the hospital, the message continued, would be \u201cheld accountable,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19392666\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virus-outbreak-china-photo-released-by-china-xinhua-news-agency-volunteers-wearing-protective-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19392666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virus-outbreak-china-photo-released-by-china-xinhua-news-agency-volunteers-wearing-protective-1.png\" alt=\"In this photo released by China&#039;s Xinhua News Agency, volunteers wearing protective suits package meals for delivery to people under lockdown in Xi&#039;an in northwestern China&#039;s Shaanxi Province, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Hospital officials in the northern Chinese city of Xi&#039;an have been punished after a pregnant woman miscarried after being refused entry, reportedly for not having current COVID-19 test results. (Zhang Bowen\/Xinhua via AP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo released by China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency, volunteers wearing protective suits package meals for delivery to people under lockdown in Xi\u2019an in northwestern China\u2019s Shaanxi Province, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Hospital officials in the northern Chinese city of Xi\u2019an have been punished after a pregnant woman miscarried after being refused entry, reportedly for not having current COVID-19 test results. (Zhang Bowen\/Xinhua via AP)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It also reported that one of the hospitals, the International Medical Center Hospital, issued a profuse apology and a vow to \u201clearn lessons from\u201d the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sincerely accept the decision by the Xi\u2019an Health Commission, and will suspend operations for rectification immediately,\u201d the statement read in part. \u201cWe will deeply reflect on, learn lessons from, and make rectifications immediately, and hold relevant personnel in charge accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019an has been a source of consistent embarrassment to the Communist Party for the almost month that dramatic lockdown protocols have been in place there. The Party trapped the city\u2019s 13 million citizens under a lockdown that banned them from leaving their homes or procuring food in response to rapidly growing numbers of Chinese coronavirus cases there. The Chinese coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China, in 2019; while the Chinese government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/03\/10\/xi-jinping-finally-visits-wuhan-missing-citys-worst-coronavirus-moments\/\">insisted<\/a> that it \u201cdefeated\u201d the virus in March 2020, it has failed to contain rolling outbreaks nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The current outbreak allegedly began in Inner Mongolia in October after a communist tour group from Shanghai traveled the country, bringing the virus with them. The Chinese government has failed to properly explain how or if simultaneous outbreaks in Xi\u2019an, parts of Beijing, and Henan province are related, but it has partially blamed frozen food and other foreign cargo for \u201cimporting\u201d the disease back home. Scientists in the free world&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-00251-4\">generally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/covid-19-transmission-surface-sanitisation-cdc-7266407\/\">agree<\/a> that contaminated surfaces are not a significant spreader of Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>In China, however, clinging to the theory that imported materials are infecting Chinese citizens through contact with a surface allows for the constant blaming of foreign sources for any continued spread. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/28\/china-admits-worst-coronavirus-situation-since-2020-genocide-olympics-approach\/\">allows<\/a> ostentatious \u201cdisinfection\u201d displays \u2014 like the spraying down of nearly every outdoor surface in Xi\u2019an with chemicals in December \u2014 that appear to show the government taking the disease seriously.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Xi\u2019an citizens began to complain this month, using the Chinese-controlled social media outlet Weibo, of poor treatment both on the part of officials and of the hospitals in question. The two individuals who died, prompting the hospitals to shut down, were an unborn child eight months into his or her mother\u2019s pregnancy and a middle-aged man who suffered a heart attack and received no care.<\/p>\n<p>In the former case, the pregnant mother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/06\/china-pregnant-woman-miscarries-after-hospital-in-locked-down-city-denies-care\/\">arrived<\/a> at the hospital with severe abdominal pain, but her latest Chinese coronavirus test showing her negative for the virus was more than two hours old, so the hospital left her to miscarry on the street, according to relatives on Weibo. The Weibo testimony described the woman \u201cbleeding profusely outside the facility for two hours\u201d as her husband pleaded without success to hospital administrators to treat her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The second case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3162371\/covid-19-china-woman-says-father-died-heart-attack-after-being-denied\">surfacing<\/a> on Weibo this week was of a man who, according to his doctor, had signs of heart failure but was denied care and died of a heart attack. The daughter lamented in the post that she had not been \u201cmore uncooperative\u201d to encourage hospital officials to take him as a patient.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s immediate response to these stories was to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/01\/06\/chinese-city-bans-negative-posts-about-brutal-coronavirus-lockdown\/\">issue<\/a> an edict banning \u201cnegative news\u201d about the handling of the lockdown in Xi\u2019an from appearing on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Jan. 4, people are banned from posting details of the pandemic restrictions or information about the road situation, videos, links, mini-apps or photos of the situation, particularly negative news,\u201d Xi\u2019an officials decreed.&nbsp;\u201cThere is background surveillance operating on all WeChat groups, and any negative news will be deleted as soon as it is sent. Please bear this in mind and pass the message on.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19376834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237542630.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19376834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237542630.png\" alt=\"A man in a protective suit stands guard at an entrance of a residential compound in Xi&#039;an in China&#039;s northern Shaanxi province on January 5, 2022. - China OUT (Photo by AFP) \/ China OUT (Photo by STR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man in a protective suit stands guard at an entrance of a residential compound in Xi\u2019an in China\u2019s northern Shaanxi province on January 5, 2022. (Photo by STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WeChat is another Chinese social media outlet heavily regulated by the Party.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship followed not just the two deaths, but growing cries for help and complaints against the government from locked-down citizens running out of food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m about to be starved to death. There\u2019s no food, my housing compound won\u2019t let me out, and I\u2019m about to run out of instant noodles \u2026 please help!\u201d one Weibo user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3161495\/coronavirus-xian-residents-running-out-food-chinese-city-enters\">lamented<\/a> in the early days of the Xi\u2019an lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Similar complaints caused significant embarrassment for the Chinese government, resulting in a flood of government-posted content showing officials allegedly distributing some vegetables to detained communities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642161379644000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2KsJGEDN0dCYru1Q_YIpQN\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642161379644000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1u99D4zr-gWL5JBrs4FGTt\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese state propaganda outlet\u00a0Global Times reported on Thursday that authorities in the locked-down metropolis of Xi\u2019an had shut down two hospitals for three months, despite the Chinese coronavirus situation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}