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28/04/2019

Private hospital in China closed down after dozens of patients given fake HPV vaccinesec6876

  • Police investigation finds nearly 40 people received the shots since January last year – before the drug was approved by the Chinese regulator
  • Hainan hospital had rented out its medical cosmetics department to a beauty parlour, which authorities suspect administered the vaccinations
The Gardasil HPV vaccine has been in short supply in China since it was approved by the regulator last year. Photo: Shutterstock
The Gardasil HPV vaccine has been in short supply in China since it was approved by the regulator last year. Photo: Shutterstock
A private hospital on Hainan Island has been closed down after it gave fake HPV vaccines to dozens of patients, including at least one who was pregnant, the local health authority said.
Police found 38 people had been given the fake shots at Boao Yinfeng Healthcare International Hospital, in the city of Boao, since January last year, the Health Commission of Hainan said in a statement on Sunday.
Some of the vaccines were found to have been smuggled in from overseas before the drug was approved in China, while others were illegally made in Jilin province.
The case is the latest in a series of scandals in recent years – including drug makers 
forging production data

and people including children being given fake, faulty or expired vaccines – that have rocked public confidence in the industry.

The hospital began administering the fake HPV shots three months before Merck’s Gardasil vaccine against human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer, was approved by the Chinese regulator in April last year. There has been a constant shortage of the vaccine since it was approved and a ballot system is used at some hospitals due to the huge demand and limited supply.
All of the Boao patients given fake shots had paid 9,000 yuan (US$1,300) to be immunised except for a hospital employee, who was vaccinated for free, the statement said.

The health commission said the hospital did not have approval to administer HPV vaccines and some of the shots were given before it officially opened in March last year.

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It was also in breach of the hospital management regulation because it had rented out its medical cosmetics department to a beauty parlour from Qingdao, which authorities suspect administered the fake vaccinations.

Its medical institution business licence was revoked and the hospital was fined 8,000 yuan, while authorities have confiscated the illegal proceeds of the fake vaccinations. It was not known whether any arrests had been made in the case, and the investigation was continuing.

The scandal came to light in March when a man posted on the People’s Daily website his complaint to the health authority about his pregnant wife being told by police she was given a fake HPV shot.

Another patient, who identified herself as Wang Xi, wrote on microblog site Weibo last week that she was told the hospital could receive the vaccine before it was officially approved because it was located in a medical tourism pilot zone, giving it preferential access to treatments.

“As a victim, I’m constantly worried – what have they injected into my body?” Wang wrote.

Source: SCMP

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27/01/2019

Chinese man throws pregnant woman from third-floor shopping centre balcony then jumps after her

  • Victim’s condition said to be not critical; attacker breaks several bones
  • Suspect, 36, tells police he wanted to take his own life
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 27 January, 2019, 7:06pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 27 January, 2019, 7:12pm

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A pregnant woman is being treated in hospital after being tossed over a third-floor balcony at a shopping centre in southern China by a man who then leapt after her.

The incident happened about noon on Saturday in the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, local police said in a statement.

As the woman, who was not named, came out of a toilet on the third floor she was grabbed by her assailant, who was identified as a 36-year-old surnamed Li.

“During an initial investigation, the suspect said that heavy financial pressures had led him to consider committing suicide,” the statement said.

“At about 11am [on Saturday] he went to the shopping mall and began pacing up and down on the third floor. About 12 noon, he saw a woman emerge from the toilets, grabbed her and threw her from the third floor to the ground floor before jumping down himself.”

The woman sustained injuries to her head and buttocks in the fall, but her condition was not critical, the statement said, adding that Li sustained multiple bone fractures.

The incident was caught by surveillance cameras in the shopping centre and uploaded to Chinese news website Thepaper.cn on Sunday.

The footage showed the moment the mother-to-be was thrown over the barrier, then her attacker jumping after her.

The report said that Li was unknown to the victim.

People gathered around the man and woman as they lay on the floor before police and other emergency services came to the aid.

Li was detained on suspicion of intentional homicide, the police statement said, adding that an investigation was under way.

A social media user questioned Li’s motive for the attack.

“If you are under lots of pressure, it is up to you to solve that,” the person wrote on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform. “Either see a psychiatrist or go somewhere alone to do the deed. Why did he have to hurt innocent people?”

Source: SCMP

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