Wuhan hospital takes down banner celebrating 40,000 patients
A Wuhan hospital was slammed by netizens after it unveiled a banner outside the building celebrating its total number of in-patients hitting 40,000.
A red banner measuring three stories in height emblazoned with the words “warm congratulations to our hospital in 2012 for exceeding 40,000 inpatients” could be seen sprawled down the exterior wall of the Wuhan City People’s Hospital as late as November 30. The banner has since been removed.
“Wuhan City People’s Hospital, [you] do not have slightest bit of morality! As if this was something worth celebrating?” he wrote.
Thousands of fuming Chinese netizens took to the blogosphere shortly after to join in the bashing. Most thought the banner was a gaffe and that 40,000 admitted patients was hardly an achievement, let alone something worth celebrating.
One Weibo-user wrote: “This is no different from hanging a banner outside the hospital with the words ‘business is booming’".