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No one has the right to threaten to or publicly digitally or in real life out someone, ever. Training programs for child-care workers should emphasize the importance of individual care, attention and stimulation for infants' normal mental development. Both the media and the State Commission for Family Planning should actively promote the adoption of orphans as an alternative for couples seeking larger families than China's population policies allow. Recorded causes of death: "third-degree malnutrition; harelip and cleft palate; mentally defective severe. Recorded causes of death: "third-degree malnutrition; small, malformed cranium.
Recorded causes of death: "third-degree malnutrition; mentally defective severe. Recorded causes of death: "second-degree malnutrition; small, malformed cranium; mentally defective. Recorded causes of death: "third-degree malnutrition; mentally defective. Two separate causes of death were diagnosed by her physician, Wu Junfeng: "severe malnutrition" and "congenital maldevelopment of brain.
One and a half years later, on June 16, , she was diagnosed as suffering from "severe malnutrition" and "cerebral palsy. According to her medical records, she died of the two illnesses just mentioned, together with, for good measure, "mental deficiency. Little is known about her medical history, except that she died six months later, at a. Date of photographs: June 24, That same day, the words "monitor intelligence" were noted down on her medical record. On the night of April 27, in Group No.
By May 1, her temperature had risen to On June 17, she was admitted to the Medical Ward and diagnosed as suffering from "severe malnutrition" and "severe dehydration. Death was noted in the medical records as having resulted from "malnutrition," "severe dehydration" and "phlegmona" an uncontrolled form of subcutaneous necrotic infection.
Again, however, the crematorium slip tells a different story. According to Wu Junfeng, who filled out the form, Ba died of "congenital maldevelopment of brain.
The photographs of this child were taken ten days before his death. On the day of Jian's admission, all of the indicators entered on his medical record at the time of the initial checkup show that he was in satisfactory health in all but two respects: he was deaf-mute, and apparently he had minor motor-coordination difficulties. The entries for February 24, read: "Nutritional condition satisfactory; weight twenty-nine kilograms; subcutaneous fat normal; ear, nose and throat normal; heart and lungs normal; motor development slightly imperfect; deaf-mute.
After about one year at the orphanage, Jian began showing signs of having a minor digestive problem, and in June he developed an infection of the upper respiratory tract, for which antibiotics were prescribed. His medical record then goes blank, apart from a series of brief entries showing the results of six-monthly general checkups, for a period of almost three years. These entries, however, are revealing.
By June , after only four months at the orphanage, his body weight had dropped from twenty-nine to twenty-two kilograms; a year later it was under twenty-four kilograms; and by June it was still only One of the nursing staff informed Zhang Shuyun that during this three-year period, Jian had begun bleeding from the stomach.
On March 9, , the medical records resume again with the observations: "Frequent vomiting after eating; general condition poor; abdomen concave; subcutaneous fat sparse. On April 22, Jiang noted as follows: "Nutritional condition poor. Transfer [patient] to the Medical Ward. It was at this point that Jian Xun's problems began in earnest. Over the next three months, he was shunted back and forth between the Disabled Section and the Medical Ward at least four times, but the medical records show that no serious effort was made to diagnose or treat his illness during this period, despite the fact that it appears he was suffering from nothing more serious than a deteriorating gastric condition.
By this time, however, he was so badly malnourished that his appearance had become severely skeletal and he could barely walk. Above all, the medical records suggest that the main concern of both Jiang Huifang and Lu Hongyan, a senior physician on the Medical Ward, during the last three months of Jian's life was that he should not die on their respective watches and in their particular parts of the orphanage. For Jian posed a problem not usually encountered by the staff: unlike most of the orphans and abandoned children who passed through the orphanage's attritional process, he was neither an infant nor an older child classified as a "no-hoper" or "terminal" case on arrival; he was eleven years old and had been admitted in quite satisfactory health.
The principal culprit in this sinister medical conspiracy appears to have been Lu Hongyan, Jian's doctor on the Medical Ward.
The contrasting entries on the medical record tell the story, and in the process betray a degeneration of medical ethics to the point where the physician's role has apparently been reduced to one of merely recording the patient's slow decline, in passive but meticulous fashion, and with no meaningful effort being made to save life:. April 22 []: General condition poor; nutritional development poor; abdomen concave; response to external stimuli just perceptible.
Send to Medical Ward.
Jiang Huifang. April 28, a. After treatment, his condition has much improved Upon discharge [today], to receive two bottles of milk daily and supplementary nutritional gruel. Diagnosis: bleeding from upper digestive tract. Lu Hongyan. Diagnosis: gastritis. Treatment: two bottles of milk per day for five days.
Jiang Huifang On April 30, Jian Xun was prescribed a joint course of phenobarbital, metoclopramide and gentamicin an antibiotic. Nine days later, Lu discharged him and recorded the following:. May 13, a. Appetite good; no vomiting or diarrhea; no positive [morbidity] indicators upon examination. Treatment: After returning to the [Disabled] Section, should get out of bed during the day. In the evenings before sleeping, tie him to bed by the hands to prevent him clutching at his throat.
Wanshang shui shi, jiang shou zhazhu, bimian zhua hou. According to an orphan who later spoke with Zhang Shuyun, Jian Xun was from this time onward placed in nappies and kept tied to his bed by the hands and feet almost continuously for twenty-four hours a day. Moreover, according to Dr. Zhang, the "chafed, red and swollen" knee-joints were the result of staff having beaten them with a wooden stick to prevent Jian from struggling while he was tied down. Again, these measures were applied in the midst of the Supervision Bureau's investigations into allegations of child abuse at the orphanage.

On June 2, noting that Jian's condition had become "extremely poor," Jiang Huifang again transferred him to the Medical Ward. Sixteen days later, however, Lu discharged him yet again and recorded the following:. June 18, a. Was given gentamicin 80,u twice daily m ; vitamin B 6, 5mg m twice daily; vitamin B complex.
Can now walk by himself, and physical strength has improved. Check for improvement in vomiting. Treatment: reinforce nursing. No pain-relieving medication was prescribed at this or any other stage of Jian's protracted and probably agonizing physical decline. His medical records were temporarily removed from the orphanage's files on July 7, the day of his final admission to the Medical Ward and ten days prior to his death, by an orphan who was helping dissident staff members to document the needlessly continuing deaths at the institute. On the same day, Ai Ming went into the Medical Ward and took the photographs of Jian that appear below.
July 7, a. Officials told reporters last year they received more than , online suggestions and 5, letters suggesting the new code included same-sex marriage or changed the "definition of close relatives". Yan Shanshan was among the letter writers, who shared her wish to marry her girlfriend. Messages also came from professionals who had hidden relationships from employers, and from same-sex couples looking to become parents.
Those who want to have a child in China are forced to seek fertility treatment or surrogates abroad -- which is prohibitively expensive.