China probes mental hospitals over reports patients are being locked up in insurance scam

Cătălin Roșioru

Media reports of psychiatric institutes locking up patients - including people without mental illness - as part of an insurance scam triggered a nationwide review. China’s top medical watchdog has ordered a nationwide review of the country’s psychiatric institutes following media reports that multiple hospitals in central China had locked up patients - including people who were not suffering from mental illness - as part of an insurance scam. The National Healthcare Security Administration said

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