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Published December 22, 2023, 1:34 PM ET
A disturbing viral video circulating online this week purports to show a Chinese surgeon repeatedly punching an 82-year-old patient in the head during a procedure.
The alleged incident occurred in 2019 at an eye hospital in the southwestern Chinese city of Guigang, run by the company Aier China.
In the alarming CCTV footage released this week by Dr. Posted on Weibo by Ai Fen, head of the emergency room at Wuhan Central Hospital, a doctor hovers over a patient wrapped in a dark green surgical blanket.
As the 82-year-old patient begins to change positions under the blanket, the doctor appears to give her three quick blows to the head. At one point in the video, another hospital employee comes into the picture and helps hold the struggling patient.
Aier China said in its statement that the doctor “treated the patient roughly in an emergency situation” after she allegedly ignored the doctor's warnings not to move her head and eyeballs.
Still images from a video posted on Chinese social media site Weibo show a surgeon allegedly hitting an 82-year-old patient in the head several times. Weibo
“During the operation, the patient had surgical intolerance due to the local anesthesia and reached up to try to touch it [her] Eyes. The area near the eyes is a sterile surgical area. If touched, infection may occur… the doctor wants to avoid danger,” the Google-translated statement reads in part.
The hospital claimed the patient was unable to understand the surgeon's instructions in Mandarin because she only spoke a local dialect. BBC writes that local authorities said the woman suffered bruises to her forehead as a result of the incident.
Aier China said in a statement on Thursday that the surgeon had been suspended and the hospital group's CEO had been fired.
Video of the alleged 2019 incident was captured by Dr. Ai Fen, a prominent Chinese doctor and head of the emergency room at Wuhan Central Hospital. Weibo Aier China said the hospital failed to report the incident. Weibo
Speaking to local news outlets, the patient's son said that after the procedure, the hospital management apologized and paid them 500 yuan ($70) in compensation.
He also claimed that his mother was now blind in her left eye. However, it was not immediately known whether this was due to what the video shows.
Aier China said the hospital failed to report the incident, which the public was unaware of until Ai, who has more than 2 million followers on the platform, shared the video.
According to the BBC, there is a long-standing dispute between Ai and Aier China stemming from an operation she underwent at one of their hospitals in 2021, which allegedly left her almost blind in one eye – allegations the company denies .
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