Eight hospitals in the capital now have hotlines for the public to report staff members who ask for cash gifts or other kickbacks, the Beijing Morning Post reports. And in a further effort to stop doctors taking cash gifts from patients, the municipal health bureau has opened a bank account into which doctors may deposit cash gifts that they were unable to refuse.
A man received a suspended death sentence on Monday for killing a prostitute during a dispute over how much she was owed, The Beijing News reports. The victim was found dead in a hair salon in Fangshan district in February of last year, and the man was caught by police four days later. He confessed in court to hitting the woman on the head with a brick and strangling her to death with electrical wiring because she asked for 200 yuan (HK$246) after he had agreed to pay her 150 yuan.