Dog owner turns up at Chinese accident and emergency unit at 4am and demands doctors treat his injured pet
Pet owner hurled abuse at staff when they tried to explain that he needed to take his golden retriever to a vet
Medical staff at an accident and emergency unit in southern China were subjected to a tirade of abuse when a dog owner arrived in the middle of the night demanding that they give his pet urgent treatment.
A clip of the incident posted on the Pear Video website quickly went viral and shows the man repeatedly tugging at the arm of a doctor at the hospital in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi region and demanding that he treat the golden retriever, which had cut its leg.
The doctor kept saying, “You can't do this, this is the emergency room, we have lots of patients here, you'll have to leave.”
According to a statement published on the official WeChat of the Guangxi Minzu Hospital, the man turned up in a black Mercedes-Benz at 4am on Sunday night when there were a number of patients waiting, including a man who had been bitten on the ear and one who had been hit over the head by a bicycle lock.
“The doctor stopped the man at once and asked him to take the pet dog outside … the doctor on call also explained to him this is not a vet’s and could not deal with an injured pet,” the statement read.
“The man became agitated and started tugging at the doctor's shirt to try to force him to treat his dog, took out a phone to film the incident and threatened that if the dog died, the doctor would be held responsible.”
The doctor explained repeatedly that the man needed to go to a vet and pointed to the human patients who needed treatment.