After Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency department director, Ai Fen, revealed on Weibo that Aier Eye Hospital had misdiagnosed and misdiagnosed her, resulting in her blurred vision and helplessness in a state of sickness and rest, it caused a hot debate. Many victims have also disclosed their experiences. The Epoch Times reporter interviewed two victims who had similar experiences, and they revealed the chaos of the eye surgery industry in mainland China.
The experience of Liu Meixin (a pseudonym), an employee of Chongqing Aier Magee Eye Hospital, sounds a bit absurd and bizarre. The strange thing is that before the surgery Liu Meixin was only 300 degrees myopic and 200 degrees astigmatic, a problem that could have been solved by wearing a pair of glasses. After the surgery, she stated that she was almost highly blind, while she was treated at her own hospital, and three years later the problem still had not been solved.
As she wears glasses corrected vision can reach 1.0, and because her glasses were broken at the Time, the hospital gave employees a 50% discount on glasses, Liu Meixin intended to match a “keratoplasty lens”, “with that discount will have to be almost 10,000 a little more.” She said, “The leader said, you have to spend so much money with glasses, do a surgery is almost the same money, might as well do surgery.” The leader, who wears glasses, also said she was going to have the surgery herself.
“I didn’t want to do the surgery, but if the leader hadn’t pressured me many times, I wouldn’t have done that surgery.” She said, “You still have to think about working here, (the leader) sees you once and asks you once, when will you have the surgery? He said he also do surgery, he are doing surgery you still do not do?” In desperation, Liu Meixin did the surgery.
“It is that CEO Yang Yu of Chongqing Aier Magee Eye, Aier Magee Eye is responsible for him.” She said, “But the first day after the surgery, review my vision is only about 0.25, then the nurse wrote me 0.8 several, my main surgeon explained to me, as long as not to 0.8, they are recorded 0.8-, is 0.8 after a minus sign.”
She also said that the hospital did not give her an “insert exam”, “but he recorded for me that there was an insert exam, which is a comprehensive optometry.”
She said she was given a full femtosecond laser (procedure), which involves making a small incision of two to four millimeters in the Cornea and removing the convex lens with a clip, “and giving me a procedure that is most unsuitable for me. It’s the equivalent of having a contact lens made in your cornea.”
She also mentioned that from the list the doctor gave her, the design plan on it was to cut 120 for her corneal lid, and the corneal media layer was left at 310 degrees, “and he ended up cutting 157 for my corneal lid during the surgery, resulting in an extra 37 fallacies, resulting in less than 280, 280 or so, left in my corneal stroma.” She said.
“Because I suspected conical cornea before surgery, he has never admitted, just say I have a slight preoperative corneal abnormalities, do not admit that I have suspected conical cornea before surgery, they just do not admit, they are experts well, everything is their say.”
“My primary surgeon kept saying that hepatitis was affecting my vision. After my surgery, I see that straight line is curved and then there are rainbows, the effect is so severe that I see that rainbow all over my body. As long as the reflective, glowing are the kind, others may think the rainbow is very beautiful, but now for me, everywhere is colorful, look very scary.” Liu Meixin said.
She talked about how her medical records were left in the hospital with no post-surgery data on them, for example, looking at straight lines that are curved and phenomena such as vortexes that are not recorded in the books. “They don’t take out their examination reports either. The data are also not even written, the medical records are not taken out, and I am not told anything anyway.” “I was always told that the surgery was well done and successful.”
However, Liu Meixin’s eyes were often painful, and she was unable to sleep throughout the night and was in a lot of pain. Her left eye was “severely double-visioned” and her right eye was “blurry. She was told to wear bandage sheets to treat her dry eyes, but they were not effective at all.
Liu Meixin mentioned that she had the surgery on August 15, 2017, and the pre-operative examination started on August 4, “I was told that I had hepatitis and could not do it. Then I was prescribed medication that dripped for more than 10 days.”
“The surgery was done on Aug. 15. But he only told me that I had hepatitis, not other (problems), nor did he tell me that hepatitis was a contraindication, nor did he tell me that I had congenital cataracts and incomplete eyelid closure, nor any other contraindications. I was just told that I had hepatitis and that I needed to be treated before having surgery.”
“I was forced to leave my job after my surgery, and my salary was settled until August 14, 2017, because I had been recovering badly.” She said.
Liu Meixin said the next day after full femtosecond surgery the average person can see 1.0 after removing the eye patch, which is the vision of wearing glasses. “My previous cornea is irregular, he brought me irregular again in the process of doing surgery, is two layers of irregular well, correction can not be corrected.” “They have always been very clear in their own minds, what is the problem? Can be cured, they all understand very well, just do not say. Just dragging time, in order to destroy the evidence.”
She mentioned that last year’s optometry slip showed that wearing rigid contact lenses (RGP), corrected vision only to about 0.2.
On Nov. 14, 2017, Liu Meixin had visited Daping Hospital at her own expense, and a doctor surnamed Chen made a phone call to Dr. Peng Yanli, the doctor who operated on her at Chongqing Almag Eye Hospital, “Peng Yanli immediately approached the person I was with and made some threats, and then Peng Yanli called me again and said she would not leave me alone and told me not to go to another hospital for treatment , said they are a circle, people will not give me that.”
In June 2018, Chongqing Almag Eye Hospital took her to other hospitals for consultation and she was told: medical records were lost and examination reports were lost. Liu Meixin had no way of knowing the results of the consultation.
Later, the hospital arranged for her to go to Guangzhou to find Professor Wang Zun (phonetic), “Professor Wang Zun is also from their Aier, they will not tell me anything.” She said despite what a doctor told her: corneal nerves are rare and basically non-existent. “But Professor Wang Zun told me that I recovered well. Everything is normal, the surgery was done well. People don’t tell the truth.”
From then on, Liu Meixin was said to be “faking” by the hospital. She went to the health and Construction Commission, “the Health and Construction Commission is also helping them to speak. That was in November 2018.”
She mentioned that the attending surgeon originally said that she could recover and that she could recover to 1.0. “I believed it and had high hopes. Then, she suddenly told me that it couldn’t be cured, that there was no way out! I was all broken up. It was Oct. 25, 2018, just the day after I came back from Guangzhou.”
In 2019, Liu Meixin went to West China Hospital, where Professor Lu Fang (phonetic) told her she had congenital cataracts and suspected cone corneas, “Only at this time did I know that I had suspected cone corneas, only then did I know that I had congenital cataracts.” She felt a sense of being cheated, and she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on this.
She believes that what happened to her is not isolated, but that other people have had the same experience, including Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital. “Dr. Ai Fen did cataract surgery and I had laser surgery.”
“It’s all about hospitals disregarding contraindications and profit above all else, I guess.” She said that in 2017, Aier Eye has a “benefit creation task”, “and then everyone’s task is very heavy, all have performance, so it is not easy to find a patient.”
“The CEO talked to him after I did the surgery, and then their conversation was overheard by another colleague, who told me that I had a contraindication before the surgery, and that he was under too much pressure and too much pressure to perform, so he could only risk doing it for me. He thought it would be a gamble to do it! Maybe it will be fine! I didn’t expect my situation to be so bad after I was done.” She said.
“Performance are bonuses, they say very well, called bonuses, in fact, is a commission. I don’t know the specific doctor’s salary, anyway, I know they have that referral, and going out for charity, just pulling patients. They sometimes give those local people, a day pay, the introduction of a patient will give him fifty, one hundred, one hundred and fifty are possible.”
As an employee, Liu Meixin knew that some elderly people who had cataract surgery in their hospital had complications after surgery and went blind directly; there were widows and orphans who had “no one to take care of them, no one to ask”; there were even “doctors who were not qualified to operate”.
Finally, she said: “Aier Hospital has a great influence in the country, it has a national chain. The company is known to people everywhere they go. In fact, so many reports out of their performance does not have any impact, people still do a good job,” she said her experience even if there are recordings and other evidence, the health commission will only help the hospital, not the victim.
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