AN employee with Shiyan Subdistrict Office in Bao’an District, surnamed Shi, was detained and fired Tuesday for beating a doctor at Bao’an People’s Hospital who had refused to let him cut in the queue.

    The Shenzhen health and family planning commission said in a statement that Shi, 41, an employee for family planning at a work station in Shiyan, had gone to the hospital with his wife for her employment health check Saturday morning. As it was very crowded, Shi asked a 21-year-old doctor, surnamed Tang, to let his wife cut in the line. After being refused, Shi lost control of his temper and started to attack Tang.

    Tang’s right eye was injured, requiring five stitches on his face around his right eye.

    Zhennan police handcuffed Shi and Tang for investigation. Tang was later released with a written bail from the hospital, while Shi was detained for seven days.

    The violence that Tang had suffered, and the subsequent treatment he received from police triggered a public outcry. Bao’an District Public Security Sub-Bureau later apologized to Tang, who was receiving treatment at hospital, for the inappropriate conduct of the police officers, the commission said.

    Shi was later criminally detained on charges of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and the Shiyan Subdistrict Office fired him Tuesday.

    According to the commission, a new local medical regulation that will take effect in January 2017 classifies medical institutions as public areas, where threats, insults, verbal abuses and attacks to medical workers and employees will be condemned and punished. The commission will adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward any conduct that infringes upon the lawful rights of medical employees or disrupts the normal order at hospitals.

    (Han Ximin)