The photo depicts the mother of the little girl crying while holding her body. I find it really disrespectful that they published photos of the girl's body.
This story just breaks my heart.
I suck at translating, but the gist of it is that the little girl had a cold and was running a fever. Her grandmother took her to the hospital, where they put her on intravenous medication. The girl started having a reaction only 5 minutes afterwards, but the doctors did not think there was a problem and only gave her some sedative.
The girl's grandmother asked the doctor to stop the medication, but the doctor felt that it was too complicated to take off the needle and restart the intravenous procedure. At around 9:20, the girl began to gasp for breath. The girl's father begged the doctor on his knees to help his daughter, but the doctor said that there was nothing to worry about.
Around 11:30, the girl died. The director of the pediatrics (not sure if it's the same hospital) says that the cause of death is unlikely to be an allergic reaction to the medication, but might be due to encephalitis or cerebral hernia (?).
There really are a lot of problems with Chinese hospitals these days. This is not the first time I've read about kids dying due to hospital treatment. The entire healthcare system in China needs to be completely revamped.
The photo depicts the mother of the little girl crying while holding her body. I find it really disrespectful that they published photos of the girl's body.
This story just breaks my heart.
. The main reason why IV therapy is over-prescribed in China is simple: money. Doctors and hospitals get kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing their drugs and IV therapy is more expensive than oral medications. 
Basically what was said in the news was that she started getting IV in January 1st, they did allergy testing on the first day and it turned out normal, so the treatment was continued for several days. She developed acute symptoms shortly after starting IV on the fifth day. The parents reported that symptoms were first ignored by the hospital staff and efforts to resuscitate did not begin until too late. The parents suspect that it was an allergic reaction which the hospital mishandled. The hospital denied being at fault and said they will wait for autopsy results.I suck at translating, but the gist of it is that the little girl had a cold and was running a fever. Her grandmother took her to the hospital, where they put her on intravenous medication. The girl started having a reaction only 5 minutes afterwards, but the doctors did not think there was a problem and only gave her some sedative.
The girl's grandmother asked the doctor to stop the medication, but the doctor felt that it was too complicated to take off the needle and restart the intravenous procedure. At around 9:20, the girl began to gasp for breath. The girl's father begged the doctor on his knees to help his daughter, but the doctor said that there was nothing to worry about.
Around 11:30, the girl died. The director of the pediatrics (not sure if it's the same hospital) says that the cause of death is unlikely to be an allergic reaction to the medication, but might be due to encephalitis or cerebral hernia (?).
There really are a lot of problems with Chinese hospitals these days. This is not the first time I've read about kids dying due to hospital treatment. The entire healthcare system in China needs to be completely revamped.
The photo depicts the mother of the little girl crying while holding her body. I find it really disrespectful that they published photos of the girl's body.
This story just breaks my heart.
To grab public attention which will oftentimes give the victim's family more power in demanding reparation. Some people also see it as a way to prevent cover-up and oppression when some form of authority or powerful figure is potentially at fault.
