Health Crisis in China: A Heart-breaking Situation
How desperate can it possibly get for one to feel the best of all possibilities is to take one's own wife and mother to a morgue to be cremated alive because care is no longer affordable? It is, sadly, the story of one impoverished family in China:A Chinese peasant woman who suffered a brain haemorrhage was left at the undertakers alive for cremation because her family could no longer afford hospital treatment, state media said on Friday.Full story here.
She was only saved by the tears in her eyes.
The case is the latest in a series of tragedies illustrating China's stretched health care system and the inability of rural workers to meet spiralling medical costs.
You Guoying, a 47-year-old migrant worker from southwestern Sichuan province, was taken for cremation by her husband and children in Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang province, where she worked, the China Youth Daily said.
Fortunately for You, the undertaker realised she was still alive when he saw her move and tears in her eyes
HT: Pearcey Report
Labels: David C. Price
posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 11/20/2005 01:59:00 PM
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3 Comments:
Hey Dude,
Off topic, but this is up your alley.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/12/professing_faith.html
That's terrible :( I hope the US never gets to that point, but the way our healthcare system is heading I woudn't be surprised.
It is sad to see that the health crisis in China. I hope they can improve the situations and help provide health insurance to all.
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