On the afternoon of May 11, Shi Yingkang, former president of West China Hospital, jumped to his death.
Comprehensive Caixin, West China Business Daily
On the evening of May 11, the official microblog of West China Hospital of Sichuan University released a message saying, "West China Clinical Medical College of Sichuan University/West China Hospital announced bitterly that Professor Shi Yingkang, the former president of our hospital, a well-known health policy and hospital management expert in China and a famous expert in cardiac surgery, unfortunately passed away on the afternoon of May 11, 2016." The announcement said, "The death of the elderly President Shi Yingkang is a major loss to the medical cause of West China, and we express our deep condolences for the passing away of the elderly President Shi Yingkang."
According to Caixin, Shi Yingkang jumped from the 20th floor on the afternoon of May 11 and died. Recently, West China Hospital is being inspected by the Discipline Inspection Commission. Shi Yingkang's daughter, Shi Yunying, an associate professor of nephrology at West China Hospital, confirmed the news of Shi Yingkang's death by jumping off a building a little later, and said: "He is cold and tired, so he wants to leave." Twenty years of diligent dedication to West China, in exchange for such an ending, I have to say that it is the sadness of society and the sadness of the system. ”
"It is true that he has all kinds of problems with his body, and it is also true that the Discipline Inspection Commission has been investigating recently, but I never expected this to happen." A medical professional with contacts with Shi Yingkang said.
Public information shows that Shi Yingkang's ancestral home is Fujian, a professor, and a doctoral supervisor. He graduated from the Department of Medicine of Sichuan Medical College in 1977, and his medical research direction is heart valve surgery, macrovascular surgery, and coronary artery surgery. In 1993, the 43-year-old Shi Yingkang was directly promoted from department director to president of the First Affiliated Hospital of West China Medical University, and in a controversy, he became the head of The youngest third-class hospital in China at that time.
"At that time, the development of the hospital encountered a bottleneck, and the school decided to reorganize the hospital leadership team." Shi Yingkang said that the president finally found him and planned to make him the director of the president's office and enter the hospital leadership team. "At that time, I was young and vigorous, and I told the old principal at that time that I would become the dean."
Shi Yingkang served as the president of West China Hospital for 20 years, leading the "second entrepreneurship" of West China Hospital, a veteran hospital with a history dating back to 124 years ago, and its overall strength jumped to the second place in the comprehensive list of the best hospitals in China, the first in the number of national clinical key specialties in the country, and the world's largest comprehensive single-point hospital.
In 2013, Shi Yingkang stepped down as the president of West China Hospital. After retiring, Shi Yingkang said in an interview, "I think I still made a relatively large contribution to China's medical and health cause, bringing West China from the basin to the ocean, I brought a bright prospect and the direction of struggle to the team, if it is a 100-point system, I give myself 95 points."
On the evening of May 11, colleagues from West China Hospital lit candles for Shi Yingkang's departure and sent their condolences.