The company’s first ever “whistle blower”, Wuhan Central Hospital Emergency Department Director Ai Fen, began to lose his eyesight last year and nearly lost his right eye after surgery at Wuhan Aier Eye Hospital, which has raised concerns about his rights. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The letter listed in detail the problems related to the hospital in the process of treating Efen. She also hopes to get something through the health Care Commission.
According to Ai Fen, on the afternoon of Feb. 8, Wuhan Health Care Commission staff called to tell her that Aier Eye Hospital had only provided the three public photos and the breakdown of charges in her request. “I asked why other information was not given. The staff said that Aier Eye Hospital was only willing to provide these, and if I was willing to follow their procedures to go forensic, they would give the rest of the information directly to the identification agency. I asked for the report card of my June 3 review, but Aier Eye Hospital replied directly that it did not have it, so it seems determined to hide the medical records and deny the facts.”
Ai Fen said, since the external announcement of Aier Group said so clearly that they do not have any major problems, then why can not surrender the things? As the direct leader of Aier Eye Hospital higher authorities – Wuhan City Health Commission can not control the illegal behavior of Aier Eye Hospital? “In addition, I also told the staff of the Health Care Commission on the phone: I am patiently waiting for the results of the Wuhan Health Care Commission’s handling of my report letter ‘based on facts and handled in accordance with the law’! (And reserve the right to disclose the details of the letter at any Time!)”
On February 10, Ai Fen posted another microblog and put up a photo of her before the surgery.
Aifen’s pre-operative fundus photo (Photo source: Weibo)
When I sent this pre-surgery photo to many eye Specialists, they were amazed because this photo clearly showed that my lens was almost normal. And this almost normal crystal was pulled by Aier Eye Hospital for cataract surgery.
Aifen consulting eye specialist chat log (Photo source: Weibo)
Aifen consulting ophthalmologist chat transcript (Photo source: Weibo)
Ai Fen said, to this day, things have become very clear: “My vision loss was caused by retinal disease at the bottom of my eyes, not a crystal problem, and there was no need for cataract surgery at all. If I had not had the surgery, my tragedy could have been avoided”.
She also said that before this incident, many people, including herself, would not have believed that Aier Hospital would intentionally create “cataracts that meet the surgical guidelines” in order to increase the volume of surgeries performed. “But it did happen to me. But it did happen to me, and it also happened to some other ordinary people who don’t know anything about Medicine. Not long ago, a middle-aged male patient from out of town told me that his medical record clearly stated that he had 1.0 vision in his left eye, but after only 21 days he was admitted to the hospital with 0.15 combined with a severe cataract, and was quickly operated on. What a crazy greedy move! This is a human eye! Alas! I wonder how many other similar things are happening every day. I have worked in public hospitals for decades and deeply feel that this kind of behavior is really terrible!”
Many netizens have left messages in support of Effen below her microblog, and others say that falsifying medical records to meet surgical needs has been common over the years, and the Health Care Commission has turned a blind eye to it, and now famous doctors have become victims, which shows how difficult it is for the people to defend their rights; others say, “It’s not too much to say that they are harvesting human organs alive. The relevant departments are not acting.”
Netizens’ comments (Photo source: Weibo screenshot)
The company’s main goal is to provide a solution to the problem of the loss of eyesight. She believes that Aier Ophthalmology has violated the medical treatment process. Affin alleged that Aier Eye Care ignored the degeneration of her fundus and rushed to perform the IOL implantation, and did not inform her about the condition of her fundus in the post-operative review, which delayed the best time for treatment.
With one eye almost blind, Ai Fen is no longer able to work. She also had to be careful in her Life, avoiding all drastic or large movements, and could not even hold her own children, “It was too hard to be a mother and not be able to hold her children”.
On January 9, 2021, Affin spoke out again, demanding that Aier Eye Hospital must openly admit its mistake to all members of the public. Affin insisted that if the examination had been thorough, the fundus degeneration would have been detected, treatment would have been cheap, and subsequent cataract surgery might not have occurred at all. Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that the root cause of this “incomplete” examination at Aier Eye is to make profit.
Efen also said that Aier Eye is a “Putian” medical structure. They cheat people through false advertisements, hire back public hospital doctors, and bribe officials with large sums of money.
In recent years, complaints about Aier Eye Care have been appearing online, including “poor service”, “no refund even if not used”, “delay in treatment”, “false propaganda”, etc. The “false propaganda” and so on.
In addition to this Wuhan Aier Eye incident, similar incidents have occurred at Shenyang Aier Eye Hospital.
In April 2020, the complainant “Sun Xiaoyu” said in the complaint platform that his grandmother spent 14,942 yuan in Shenyang Aier Eye Hospital to receive surgery to replace the crystal, but three months after the replacement of the crystal, his grandmother’s eyesight not only did not improve a little, but also aggravated the original situation.
In this regard, Aier Eye Hospital informed that it still needs to continue to receive treatment, which will probably still cost 20,000 yuan. This explanation caused dissatisfaction among the “sun boy”, who thought, “This is fraud, because before the promise of a new crystal can improve vision, now have to continue to spend money.”
Efen, the “whistle blower”, has been suppressed for speaking out
On March 10 of last year, People published an interview with “The Man Who Sent the Whistle,” an 8,000-word article featuring Effen. Ai Fen is the person who took the picture of the virus test report that Li Wenliang spread in WeChat. She said she was the one who sent the whistle.
On the morning of January 2, 2020, she was interviewed by the hospital’s supervisory department and accused of having “no principles or organizational discipline to create rumors and create trouble. “I was even asked to verbally communicate to more than 200 people in the department that they were not allowed to discuss anything related to this pneumonia, “not even their own husbands”.
Effen was well aware that human-to-human transmission had occurred, but the hospital would not even let the doctors wear their isolation suits outside in order to conceal the truth, “saying that isolation suits worn outside would cause panic.” She had to ask the emergency department to put the isolation gown inside the white coat, which was “ridiculous.”
Dr. Effen recalls that if she hadn’t been reprimanded by them like that, and if the hospital had communicated with each other internally, maybe the situation would have been better, “If it had been January 1 when everyone was alerted like that, there wouldn’t have been so many tragedies.”
When Wuhan was still concealing the outbreak and the CDC experts were claiming it was “controllable and preventable,” on Jan. 11, emergency department nurse Hu Ziwei was infected, and Effen was the first to report it to the hospital, and the decision after an emergency meeting was to remove the “viral pneumonia” from the report. On January 16, a vice president actually said, “We all need to have a little medical common sense, some senior doctors do not make themselves scared to death.” Another leader came on stage and continued, “There is no human-to-human transmission, it is preventable, treatable and controllable.” A day later, on Jan. 17, Jiang Xueqing was hospitalized and 10 days later intubated and put on Echocardium (ECMO).
Effen said in response, the central hospital is so costly, is related to the lack of transparency of information about the medical staff. Emergency department and respiratory department collapsed instead of so many medical care, because there is a sense of protection, but ophthalmology, thyroid breast surgery have a lot of medical care collapsed. She also said that she regretted very much as the person involved, regretted not continuing to blow the whistle after being interviewed, especially when she saw her colleagues fall one by one, and felt that she should have spoken up in the first place.
In this interview, Ai Fen also describes the tragic situation in Wuhan Hospital at the beginning of the Epidemic, “The condition of the emergency department during that time is something that people who experienced it will never forget for the rest of their lives, and it will even turn all your views on life upside down.”
Effen said her emergency department had seen 1,523 patients in a single day, three times the usual peak. Patients were lined up for hours, the halls were filled with patients, and the medical staff was completely off duty. There were decently dressed female patients who collapsed in the queue to see a doctor and no one dared to help her, lying on the floor for a long time; there were patients who were driven by their families to see a doctor and begged for a bed, dying in the car without even having a chance to get out; there were also white-haired elderly people who sent their black-haired sons to the hospital, and their 32-year-old sons had turned into a death certificate before they were diagnosed.
She also said, “I should have known that there is today, regardless of his criticism, the old son said everywhere.” The phrase “Laozi speaks everywhere” also became one of the top 10 sensitive words on the Internet in 2020.
The issue of People was forced to be taken down within three hours of publication, and the original article was removed from the magazine’s WeChat public website by noon that day.
After that, Ai Fen gradually faded out of the public eye. A source within the Hubei Provincial Health Commission told Radio Free Asia a month ago that Li Wenliang’s relatives and Ai Fen are still under surveillance by the authorities, and that Li Wenliang’s widow has returned Home with her two children, while Li Wenliang’s Parents are still unable to get over their trauma, but are now officially prohibited from speaking out.
In addition, a physician at Wuhan Central Hospital revealed that the passports and Hong Kong and Macau permits of all the hospital’s doctors have been seized, but officials have not explained why.
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