Han Ximin

    ximhan@126.com

    A POST about a recent attack against a nurse in a Shenzhen hospital earned 100,000 views online, but the information posted online doesn’t match what seems to have actually happened.

    On June 3, a woman, surnamed Wu, 49, kicked a nurse, surnamed Dai, in the Hong Kong University Shenzhen Hospital, because she was upset that her mother, who is receiving treatment for cancer, was being moved to a different place in the ward without being notified before hand.

    Dai suffered only a minor injury, but Wu was detained for 10 days under Shenzhen’s zero-tolerance policy towards violence in hospitals, according to an announcement by the Tian’an Police Station in Futian District on Friday.

    The story posted online had several details added with several facts not matching the official statements.

    The online post suggested that Wu was a senior official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) before she became a deputy director of the general office of Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, Tian’an police said Wu works for a property management office.

    The Chinese Academy of Sciences said Friday that its deputy director had not left Beijing during the incident, so it isn’t possible that the woman who attacked the nurse was the same woman.

    Information posted online alleged that police let Wu leave the hospital without punishment. To add fuel to the fire, the online source quoted one officer as saying that the hospital is always causing trouble.

    Netizens criticized the police for allegedly letting Wu go.

    The information posted online was wrong, said Lin Zhao, head of the Tian’an Police Station.

    Lin also said the officer on duty didn’t say that the hospital caused trouble and also didn’t force the nurse to sign a reconciliation agreement.

    Futian police have detained 26 people over hospital violence at hospitals and criminally charged two of the people since 2014.