Beijing to protect medical whistle-blowers


A memorial to Li Wenliang at Li’s hospital in Wuhan in central China on February 7. He was punished at the start of China’s pandemic for alerting the public about Covid-19. A new law introduced last Friday will protect such whistle-blowers. – EPA pic, September 28, 2020.

BEIJING’s city government will protect “non-malicious” medical whistle-blowers under a new law, passed months after a Chinese doctor was punished for sounding the alarm at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

China’s leaders suffered a rare wave of public outrage after ophthalmologist Li Wenliang died of the disease in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus first emerged late last year.


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