Hospital refuses to treat Sars victims too poor to pay bill

Daily Telegraph ^

[per loin]

Twelve of its staff had been infected by the dead woman, he said, and up to 40 cases were now being treated - a statistic that is more than the official figure for all of Inner Mongolia.

Kinda makes nonsense out of China's current "honest figures".

[Asclepius]

The reports raised the prospect of the disease spreading unchecked through China's vast hinterland, with impoverished sufferers unable to receive proper care and instead returning home to infect others.

These clowns were going to take Taiwan from us?

[Calpernia]

Ping

[clockwork]

state media said patients from a poor region had been turned away from hospital because they could not afford treatment.

They should just come to the good old U.S. of A. and claim to be illegal Mexicans...free health care, education, and retirement.

[blam]

"Kinda makes nonsense out of China's current "honest figures"."

Yup. I'm not at all suprised.

[Judith Anne]

Liars all.

[riri]

Put a fork in China they are done. The only question remains do we have the strength to what is necessary for self preservation?

[ex-Texan]

I wonder about all the bio-engineering experts in China who have died from the SARS bullet-in-head-syndrome !

[blam]

"They should just come to the good old U.S. of A. and claim to be illegal Mexicans...free health care, education, and retirement."

Yup. I've been worried about a Chinese version of Camp Of The Saints via airline. Just hop off the plane in SF, LA or Seattle and say, "I have SARS" and get the best care the world has to offer.

[Domestic Church]

Some think SARS is just the prep before taking a lot more than Taiwan. If we as a nation are cut in half we will be in bad shape. If China as a nation has it's population cut in half they will have eliminated their so called over population problem and still have enough for a strong army and manufacturing base.

For related reading: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748153/posts

[LPStar]

Are you suggesting SARS is a bioweapon that China turned on itself?

[riri]

Experimental SARS test Performed on 3 Suspect Cases, Results Negative

[Judith Anne]

Most of the time, the most accurate test doesn't give accurate results until about 2-3 weeks into the infection.

[WoofDog123]

"Twelve of its staff had been infected by the dead woman, he said, and up to 40 cases were now being treated - a statistic that is more than the official figure for all of Inner Mongolia."

You gotta wonder what the mortality rate for hospital/clinic workers in china, and for the world as well, is going to be over the next 6 months.

[strela]

Was Stephen King's "The Stand" merely popular entertainment? Or was it prescience?

[blam]

"Experimental SARS test Performed on 3 Suspect Cases, Results Negative"

I would have used the word 'inconclusive' in describing the results of this test. (Read it.)

[TheLion]

Bump!

[jrushing]

PLEASE, Humans, shield Hillary from reading this!

In China, state media said patients from a poor region had been turned away from hospital because they could not afford treatment, with impoverished sufferers unable to receive proper care and instead returning home to infect others.

This must be untrue because Socialists/Communists all have free Health Care. Surely the Mark/Stalin/Maoists can't allow the Poor to go untreated!! There must be free Health Care??

[Judith Anne]

Yes, they are still considered "suspect cases" by the doctors.