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Four people dead after anesthesia mishaps at Fujian’s SanMing Second Hospital

A series of deaths at Fujian’s SanMing Second Hospital has prompted the Chinese Health Ministry to send experts to Yongan city where the tragedies occurred to investigate the cause of the deaths related to anaesthetics. Four patients have died within just 18 days in September after they were administered anesthetics before undergoing surgeries.

On September 26, a web posting appeared on a Chinese communist website “Yongan Forum” saying that the friend of the blogger died from losing consciousness during an operation, and that he was the 2nd person in September to die from anaesthesia. This online posting suddenly shattered the normally peaceful town of Yongan, with people talking about the death on the lanes and streets around the town. Less than 13 hours after the blog, news broke of another death at SanMing Second Hospital from anesthesia, and the hospital became the topic on everyone’s lips.

Zhen Fumei, the mother of the latest anesthesia victim Zou Zhentao told the media that her child was only 4 years old, and died so bizarrely at the operating table. Zou was admitted to SanMing Second Hospital on September 13 with a hernia in the small intestine. Zhen says that around 9am on September 24, her child was given Intravenous and was under spinal anaesthesia for left inguinal hernia repair operation and circumcision, but barely 20 minutes into the operation she was advised by the nurse that Zou’s breathing and heart beat suddenly stopped during the anesthesia and operation, and that he had pulmonary edema, and the hospital was doing all they can to revive the four year old.

Zhen says that she was notified by the hospital around 4pm that day that they could not revive Zou, and that 4 people have died in less than one month after being anesthetised.

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