Due to the picture of the year-end summary meeting of "all money in the operating room" circulated on the Internet, Dongguan Kanghua Hospital was hotly discussed by netizens. On January 27, the hospital issued a note saying that the banner was made by the nurses in the hospital and used in a meal spontaneously organized by some people in the hospital's operating room. The hospital solemnly apologized to the society for this and carried out serious criticism and education of the relevant responsible persons at the first time.
"The operating room is full of money" banner caused controversy Dongguan Kanghua Hospital apologized
On January 26, a hanging banner read, "Tigers and Tigers Greet the New Year, the operating room is full of money!" Pictures of the year-end summary conference were widely circulated on social platforms, causing online controversy, and some netizens condemned the hospital for having no medical ethics. People familiar with the matter said that the annual meeting was held for the 2022 year-end summary meeting held in the operating room of Dongguan Kanghua Hospital.
In the early morning of January 27, the WeChat public account "Dongguan Kanghua Hospital Service Number" released the "Explanation of the Situation Involving improper banners in the operating room of our hospital". The description said that after investigation, it was learned that on the evening of January 21, some personnel in the central operating room of the hospital spontaneously organized a meal in a restaurant, in order to create a relaxed dining atmosphere, some nurses made banners to hang on the spot, and the content of the banners was extremely improper, which seriously violated the purpose of the hospital and had a bad impact after being uploaded to the network.
In the above statement, the hospital stressed that it solemnly apologizes to the society. The hospital will carry out serious criticism and education of the relevant responsible persons at the first time, and will further investigate the departments and individuals involved, and deal with them seriously in accordance with the relevant rules and regulations of the hospital. The hospital said it would prevent similar situations from happening and further strengthen the ideological education of employees.
Behind Dongguan Kanghua is a private top three hospital behind it is a Hong Kong listed company
According to public information, Dongguan Kanghua Hospital was built by Dongguan Kanghua Group with an investment of 2.6 billion yuan, laid the foundation in September 2002, and officially opened in November 2006, is an ecological large-scale private tertiary hospital, and passed the top three review in June 2018.
The hospital plans to have 2,006 beds, 63 (composite) operating rooms, 18 open (15 central operating rooms + 3 catheterization rooms), and more than 100 open intensive care beds. The hospital has more than 1,500 parking spaces and bus stops, and has a VIP outpatient clinic and a VIP inpatient department "Huaxin Building".
Beijing Youth Daily reporter inquired about the enterprise check App shows that the hospital's affiliated enterprise is Dongguan Kanghua Hospital Co., Ltd., which was established in 2005, the legal representative is Chen Wangzhi, and the registered capital is 350 million yuan. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangdong Kanghua Medical Co., Ltd., while Kanghua Medical is a Hong Kong listed company.
Kanghua Medical's 2021 interim report shows that in the first half of 2021, the group achieved a comprehensive income of 871 million yuan, an increase of 14.52% year-on-year; achieved a net profit attributable to the mother of 30.88 million yuan, an increase of 129.04% year-on-year. The increase in its performance was mainly due to an increase in revenue from the hospital services division and an increase in the overall number of visits from patients operated by its own hospitals.
In fact, Dongguan Kanghua Hospital is the main source of revenue for Kanghua Medical, with a total revenue of 672 million yuan in the first half of last year, an increase of 9.7% year-on-year. In the first half of last year, the number of outpatient visits at Kanghua Hospital was 512,460, an increase of 18.9% over the same period last year, and the number of inpatients was 24,191, an increase of 16% over the same period last year.
On January 27, Kanghua Medical's share price fell 2.77% in morning trading to close at HK$2.46.
Warned of medical malpractice Nearly 30% of the lawsuits involved are for medical expenses
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily inquired about the information and found that Dongguan Kanghua Hospital Co., Ltd. had been warned and fined 10,000 yuan by the Dongguan Municipal Health Bureau for "failing to write medical records in accordance with regulations". Information from Credit China shows that a medical accident occurred in Dongguan Kanghua Hospital, and the doctor bears the main responsibility. The former Dongguan Municipal Health and Family Planning Bureau warned the hospital in 2018.
In addition, the company was involved in 88 judicial cases, most of which were disputes over medical service contracts and disputes over liability for medical damages. Among them, in 24 cases of medical service contract disputes, the company was the plaintiff, and the reason for the lawsuit was to seek the medical expenses owed to the defendant. In most of these cases, the company's claims were upheld or partially upheld by the courts.
In 18 medical damage liability dispute cases, some patients had seizures in Dongguan Kanghua Hospital after the "skull repair (prosthesis implantation)" to prepare for a re-examination of the cranial CT, and after several treatments, they still failed to save their lives. The judicial appraisal said that the hospital had certain faults in the diagnosis and treatment process. The final appraisal opinion held that there was an indirect causal relationship between the doctor's faulty behavior and the patient's death, which was a secondary factor. The patient's own severe open head injury and the magnitude of the causative force of postoperative complications in the consequences of death are the main factors.
In addition, Dongguan Kanghua Hospital was also admitted to the hospital for maternal lower abdominal pain but failed to arrange surgery in time, resulting in stillbirth and being sued by the mother.
According to the judgment document, the judicial appraisal said that the patient's condition was complex when he was admitted to the hospital for delivery, the risk of diagnosis and treatment was relatively large, and he belonged to a high-risk mother, and the patient had a history of scarring uterine disease and had indications for caesarean section, and the doctor should inform the patient of the seriousness of his condition and the mode of delivery to be proposed when the patient was admitted to the hospital to give birth and obtain the written consent of the patient, but the medical record data showed that the doctor did not obtain the patient's signed informed consent until 14:40 after discovering the intrauterine death of the fetus, indicating that the doctor did not inform the patient of the pregnant woman's condition in time when the patient was admitted to the hospital. Therefore, it is believed that the doctor has not fulfilled its obligation to inform and is negligent.
The court held that there was a causal relationship between dongguan Kanghua Hospital's failure to differentially diagnose the patient's lower abdominal pain and not to continuous fetal heart rate monitoring and the patient's fetal death, which was another factor leading to fetal death, and the plaintiff was liable for 50% of the compensation.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Xin
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