Word: shanxi
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...rate of China's economy this year from 7.6% to 6.5% as a result of the SARS scare. Meanwhile, the virus is picking up steam in the impoverished hinterlands, where public awareness of the risks of SARS is limited and hospitals lack the resources to treat an outbreak. In Shanxi province, just southwest of Beijing, eight patients have died, and overcrowded hospitals are turning patients away. Locals have begun to express openly their disgust with official denials of the size of the epidemic. Says the relative of one victim: "It is really bad that the government doesn't care about...
Some provincial health workers are equally unlikely to be candid. At a secret staff meeting overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, relayed what he called the "three nos" disseminated by China's Ministry of Central Publicity: no talking to the media about SARS, no talking to the public about treating the disease and no tattling to WHO if its experts come calling. And with that warning, the meeting ended. The same, sadly, cannot be said of the epidemic. --By Hannah Beech. With reporting by Susan Jakes and Huang...
...hard-hit areas like Hong Kong, which is adjacent to Guangdong, should follow local health officials' instructions and keep their distance from people known to be infected. Travelers should note that WHO now recommends that travel to Hong Kong or the Guangdong Province, as well as Beijing and Shanxi Province, China, and Toronto be postponed, unless the travel is "essential...
...packed are some Taiyuan hospitals that they have been turning away patients. One relative of a SARS victim at the Shanxi Medical University No. 1 Hospital was shocked to hear nurses, citing overcrowded conditions, refusing to admit more SARS patients. "It is really bad that the government doesn't care about ordinary people's lives," he says. Other patients are avoiding hospitals completely, because they don't have the funds to pay for expensive SARS treatment, thereby raising the chances that the disease will continue spreading into China's interior...
...hospital to see if any of them could have been SARS. "Even though this disease started in our country, we are behind everyone else in the world in trying to treat it." Other doctors from China's interior share his sense of betrayal and distrust. Asked about Shanxi's official death toll of just seven people, one doctor stationed outside a grim isolation ward stared at a TIME reporter and laughed: "Seven? That's complete fiction. Try maybe...