Migrant Worker Dies After Lying on Street for Over 20 Days
by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
From Sina:
Zhengzhou Health Bureau Responds to Migrant Worker Dying on the Street: He Refused Medical Treatment
According to a Henan Business Daily report on December 1, at noon on November 30, a migrant worker died after lying under the Zhengbian Road Overpass on Zhengzhou City Zhongzhou Avenue for over 20 days. During which time, people from 120 Emergency Services came and then left again unwilling to receive him. 120 claims, if the patient is unwilling to go to the hospital or does not need emergency help, they will not drag them away.
In December 2 morning, the Zhengzhou Health Bureau sent a statement to this website explaining the situation, detailing the emergency responses between 2012 October 1 to November 30, with the original text of the statement below.
2012 December 1, after certain media reported the “Zhengzhou Migrant Worker Dies after Lying Under Overpass for Over 20 Days, 120 Emergency Services Saw Without Helping” matter, the Zhengzhou City Health Bureau Party Committee attached high importance to the issue, with the bureau leader personally delegating and instructing the Zhengzhou City Emergency Medical Rescue Center to earnestly investigate and handle the matter. The preliminary investigation results are as follows:
It is understood that, between 2012 October 1 and December 30, there were two emergency rescue records regarding the overpass between Zhengbian Road and Zhongzhou Avenue:
2012 November 22 6:59pm, Zhengzhou City Emergency Medical Rescue Center Command & Dispatch Hall received an emergency call, with the caller claiming: A migrant worker under the overpass between Zhengbian Road and Zhongzhou Avenue was in need of emergency treatment. The nearest Zhengzhou No.1 People’s Hospital First-Aid Station was dispatched. The first-aid personnel arrived at the scene at 7:11pm, and through questioning the patient himself, the patient said his name was Liu Hongwei, was 38-years-old, began experiencing fatigue an hour earlier due to not having eaten normally over the past two days, and told the first-aid doctor that he had no previous history of disease or drug allergies.
Through an examination on the scene: The patient was conscious, blood pressure and other vital signs were normal, blood glucose levels were normal. The first-aid doctor asked the patient to go to the hospital for further examination and treatment, and the patient declined. Then the first-aid doctor took out the only 5 yuan he had in his uniform and gave it to the patient’s co-workers beside him to buy food for the patient. The first-aid doctor informed the patient himself and the person who made the emergency call of the patient’s current condition, and then left with their consent, informing the patient and the caller to immediately call 120 if the patient should feel unwell.
2012 November 30 12:31pm, Zhengzhou City Emergency Medical Rescue Center Command & Dispatch Hall received an emergency call claiming: A migrant worker that has been lying several days under the overpass at Zhengbian Road and Zhongzhou Avenue has been discovered to be no longer responding to calls. The City Emergency Medical Rescue Center immediately dispatched the nearest Zhengzhou No.1 People’s Hospital First-Aid Station for the emergency.
The first-aid personnel arrived at the scene at 12:42pm, and upon examination, the patient was unconscious and unresponsive, without vital signs, arms and legs cold and slightly stiff, and the electrocardiogram a straight line with the patient being declared dead at 2012 November 30 12:47pm. Because death occurred before the rescue, the cause of death is temporarily unable to be determined, the first-aid personnel informed the police of the patient’s condition, handed the body over to the police for processing, and left.
We hereby explain the situation and also express our deep condolences to the unfortunately deceased migrant worker.
