{"id":6989,"date":"2013-07-11T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T01:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xiaokang2020.com\/danweicom\/?p=662"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:08:14","slug":"42-patients-escape-from-mental-hospital-in-guangxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/42-patients-escape-from-mental-hospital-in-guangxi.php","title":{"rendered":"42 patients escape from mental hospital in Guangxi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OnlyOn the evening of July 5th, 42 mental patients escaped from the No. 3 People\u2019s Hospital in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi province. A search was carried out, and all 42 patients were relocated by 7:33 am the following morning. Only yesterday, four days after the last patient was recaptured, was this incident featured in the\u00a0People\u2019s Daily<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in a report which bears strong similarities to an article that appeared back on July 8th in\u00a0Southern Weekly<\/em> \u5357\u65b9\u5468\u672b.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This story was first broken on July 7th by the Wuzhou-based\u00a0Xijiang City News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u897f\u6c5f\u90fd\u5e02\u62a5 (see featured image), which reported that none of the escapees had suffered any harm or any other \u201cout of the ordinary\u201d treatment during their punishment. The Teng county Propaganda Department told journalists from this newspaper that several patients first seized a nurse before taking her keys, cellphone and cash. After they opened the door and escaped, other patients followed them. Some patients managed to secure car rides into central Wuzhou, but according to the\u00a0Xijiang City News<\/em>, passers-by saw that the patients were acting strangely and alerted members of the 400-strong search team, which was drafted together mostly from the the Wuzhou police forces. The search was concluded when the last patients were found early in the morning on Taiyang Square \u592a\u9633\u5e7f\u573a in central Wuzhou.<\/p>\n

But why did the patients seek to escape?\u00a0The\u00a0Southern Weekly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0took up this question on July 8th. The Guangzhou-based paper secured an interview with No. 3 Hospital\u2019s deputy director Hu Chaoyuan \u80e1\u8d85\u8fdc. According to Hu, the patients who led the escape were suffering from schizophrenia, and were also predisposed to a violent temperament.<\/p>\n

But Hu did not try to pin all of the blame on the patients. He also admitted that one problem was a fragile security system. Chinese health authorities have been aware of this problem since at least July 2012, when the Health Ministry\u00a0released a new set of guidelines<\/a>\u00a0targeted at strengthening security not only at specialist mental health hospitals but also at mental health departments in general hospitals. The guidelines required all hospitals to put together a feasible security plan. Hospitals were also required to employ security personnel, and to install video monitoring equipment and emergency alarm systems in areas where mental health patients are treated. The guidelines also called for all facilities treating mental health patients to draw up contingency plans for dealing with violent patients, or patients who attempted to commit suidice, escape, attack people or damage property.<\/p>\n

Hospital authorities in Wuzhou also listed overcrowding and a poor environment as reasons for the July 5th escape. The Beijing News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u65b0\u4eac\u62a5 reported in 2009 that there are more than 100 million mental health patients in China.\u00a0Health News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u5065\u5eb7\u62a5, published by the Health Ministry, announced on World Mental Health Day in 2012 that there are only 1.58 beds in mental health wards per 10,000 citizens in China, compared with a global average of 4.36. According to Kong Lingzhi \u5b54\u7075\u829d, the author of the\u00a0Health News<\/em>report, there is also a severe shortage in mental health personnel. At the moment there are only 20,000 doctors and 35,000 nurses specializing in mental healthcare in the whole of China. Kong also said that there has been some investment in improving mental healthcare provision in recent years, but the Wuzhou escape shows that work on improving mental heathcare in China is still a long way from complete.<\/p>\n

Links and sources<\/strong>
\nPeople\u2019s Daily Online<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u4eba\u6c11\u7f51): \u5e7f\u897f\u85e4\u53bf42\u540d\u7cbe\u795e\u75c5\u4eba\u8131\u7ba1\u7ec6\u8282\u66dd\u5149 \u533b\u9662\u8f6f\u786c\u8bbe\u65bd\u4e9f\u9700\u5b8c\u5584
\nXijiang City News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u897f\u6c5f\u90fd\u5e02\u62a5): \u85e4\u53bf42\u540d\u7cbe\u795e\u75c5\u4eba\u665a\u4e0a\u51fa\u8d70
\nSouthern Weekly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u5357\u65b9\u5468\u672b) \u201c\u98de\u8d8a\u75af\u4eba\u9662\u201d\u73b0\u5b9e\u7248\u4e0a\u6f14 \u5e7f\u897f42\u540d\u7cbe\u795e\u75c5\u4eba\u66b4\u529b\u8131\u7ba1 \u76ee\u524d\u5df2\u5168\u90e8\u627e\u56de
\nNew mental healthcare guidelines published in 2012 by Jiangxi Department of Health (\u6c5f\u897f\u536b\u751f\u5385\uff09<\/a>(\u8f6c\u53d1\u536b\u751f\u90e8\u529e\u516c\u5385\u5173\u4e8e\u52a0\u5f3a\u7cbe\u795e\u75c5\u533b\u9662\u5b89\u5168\u4fdd\u536b\u5de5\u4f5c\u7684\u901a\u77e5)
\nBeijing News<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(\u65b0\u4eac\u62a5): \u4e2d\u56fd\u5404\u7c7b\u7cbe\u795e\u75be\u75c5\u60a3\u8005\u903e\u4ebf
\nHealth News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u5065\u5eb7\u62a5): \u536b\u90e8\u786e\u5b9a\u7cbe\u795e\u536b\u751f\u65e5\u5ba3\u4f20\u8981\u70b9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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