Chinese woman who slapped nurse gets nine days’ detention, US$75 fine
- Incident at Shanghai happened after wife of patient got upset while he was being treated
A woman from Shanghai who slapped a nurse who was treating her husband has been given nine days’ detention and fined 500 yuan (US$75), according to local media.
The nurse, surnamed Wang, was suctioning phlegm from the patient at a hospital in the city’s Huangpu district on February 16 when he began to cough and splutter, Kankanews.com reported on Monday.
The man’s wife, identified only as Zhang, was apparently upset by this and complained to Wang. The nurse said it was normal for patients to cough and vomit when receiving the treatment, but Zhang was unconvinced and attacked Wang, slapping her several times in the face, the report said.
The hospital called the police and Zhang was arrested.
In a video shown on the website, she said: “The hospital had cared for us all along. When the events happened, it was down to me being too emotionally charged.