Word: yanyong
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...JIANG YANYONG When SARS hit China in 2002, the regime sought to squash the news. By April 2003, SARS may have infected thousands, but some hospitals emptied their SARS wards when U.N. health officials visited. Retired army doctor Jiang couldn't bear the cover-up and told TIME and other outlets the truth. Finally, the Health Ministry began an education campaign that helped contain the killer virus...
...fire station when there's a blaze in the neighborhood. It also badgers hospitals to admit patients who don't have adequate funds and harasses lawmakers to change legislation. "In Thailand we have ministries for social services and welfare, but they do not work well," says program manager Yanyong Sangpow. "The people need us to get things done, to cut through the red tape...
...rein in the country's increasingly boisterous media, the Party's Publicity Department?formerly the Ministry of Propaganda?this month ordered the closure of the Beijing New Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the government's cover-up of the SARS epidemic; separatist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang; the financial scandal swirling around Shanghai tycoon Zhou Zhengyi, and avian flu, which has broken out twice in China in the past five years and can kill humans...
...government. Obstetricians under orders from bureaucrats perform late-term abortions, and psychiatrists commit sane political dissidents to mental institutions. In March and April, hundreds of doctors knew that Party officials were risking lives by denying the scope of the SARS epidemic. Only one, 71-year-old military doctor Jiang Yanyong, went public with damning information. His colleagues, meanwhile, abetted a scheme to hide SARS patients in Beijing from World Health Organization inspectors. "Medicine is supposed to be the most ethical profession," says Qiu Renzhong, a medical ethicist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "but Chinese doctors work...
...Meanwhile, Jiang Yanyong, the military doctor who exposed the government's SARS cover-up by publicly accusing the Minister of Health of lying about the capital's outbreak, has become a local hero. The China Women's News ran his photo ahead of those of government officials in a front-page piece headlined HONOR ROLL OF SARS FIGHTERS. Although Jiang has been told not to give interviews, he seems to have escaped retribution. Partly that may be because, as a top surgeon who has saved the lives of military leaders, he could count on protection. In an earlier interview with...