Hu Wanlin

Hu Wanlin ( Chinese  胡万林 , Pinyin Hú Wànlín ; * 1949 in Mianyang in the Chinese province of Sichuan ) is said to have killed 146 people as an illegally practicing doctor and alternative practitioner .

Life

Hu Wanlin was born in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, where he attended elementary school, but had neither attended secondary school nor received vocational training. In 1980 he was imprisoned for murder , fraud , kidnapping and human trafficking . He started practicing as a doctor in prison. In 1997 he was acquitted on appeal. After his release, he continued to practice illegally as a doctor in two northern provinces until it was banned by local authorities in 1998. He then went to Henan , one of the central provinces of China.

During Hu's treatments, 146 people died from his herbal preparations, which were found to contain high levels of sodium sulfate , which is toxic in large quantities. On January 18, 1999, he was arrested in Shangqiu on suspicion of causing the deaths of around 150 people. The charge was not murder, only unjustified practice of the medical profession. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison on October 1, 2000, five years of disenfranchisement, and a fine of 150,000 Chinese yuan.

consequences

The Hu Wanlin case drew attention in China to the widespread medical practice of those without medical training. As a result, the government set up an approval process for doctors. In 1999, 300,000 people passed the relevant official examination in China for the first time.

Web links

• Wanlin Hu, verdict; engl.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Serial Murder by Ronald M. Holmes, Stephen T. Holmes; Google book search
2. ↑ Ronald M. u. Stephen T. Homes: Serial Murders. 3rd ed. 2010 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.