Word: isolationism
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"I guess that means I don't exist," jokes a middle-aged English man who has been confined to the 14th-floor isolation ward for a week. He connects with the outside world by cell phone. "The care here is good, but I must admit I'm feeling a little...
China has a long history of not facing up to its medical problems, but a few doctors are overcoming the fear of losing their jobs to talk about cover-ups. Jiang Yanyong, a retired military doctor who spoke out about inaccurate reporting in one hospital, says he was outraged that...
The reality is that SARS patients are overflowing from Taiyuan's threadbare hospitals. With nearly 40 confirmed cases filling up one quarantine ward at the Shanxi Medical University No. 1 Hospital, another makeshift isolation section had been set up in the back of the hospital. Many of this ward's...
It was into this sorry isolation ward that 20-year-old Shanxi student Han was admitted last week, accompanied by his sister and her boyfriend, who came to take care of him. The boyfriend, surnamed Liang, remembers asking a nurse for a mask to wear around the crowded ward, but...
The hope now is that Beijing's high-profile policy shift late last week will quickly have a tangible impact, and not be seen merely as a PR ruse designed to limit damage to China's prestige and economy. But in the provinces, faith in the country's leadership has...