15 jan 2012
Beijing: Some two lakh residents in Shandong province in eastern China were forced to take drugs as part of a medical experiment for gastric disorders, an Internet blogger has alleged, prompting a local official to say that the treatment was "voluntary".
Provincial officials have denied claims made in a recent micro-blog post which said that more than two lakh residents in Linqu County were taking unknown drugs delivered by the local health department, and some residents suspect they are part of a medical experiment, the state media reported.
"The event may be driven by profits, some departments or officials ignoring people's health, we need to find out the truth," wrote an Internet user wrote on Sina Weibo, China's most popular Twitter-like micro-blog, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.
Thousands of netizens have since forwarded the post and voiced concern about people in the county.
However, the mass use of drugs in Linqu County is voluntary and is an attempt to battle gastric diseases prevalent in the area, the report quoted officials and some local residents as saying.
According to Wang Wenxiao, chief of the village's Communist Party committee, Xujiashangzhuang village. The health department of Linqu county supplied free medicine for some villagers to reduce incidences of gastric diseases.
"Villagers between 25 to 55 years old received health check-ups before taking medicine, and 185 of them were diagnosed with helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) infection, which would cause gastric cancers or other gastrosias," said Wang.
Beijing: Some two lakh residents in Shandong province in eastern China were forced to take drugs as part of a medical experiment for gastric disorders, an Internet blogger has alleged, prompting a local official to say that the treatment was "voluntary".
Provincial officials have denied claims made in a recent micro-blog post which said that more than two lakh residents in Linqu County were taking unknown drugs delivered by the local health department, and some residents suspect they are part of a medical experiment, the state media reported.
"The event may be driven by profits, some departments or officials ignoring people's health, we need to find out the truth," wrote an Internet user wrote on Sina Weibo, China's most popular Twitter-like micro-blog, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.
Thousands of netizens have since forwarded the post and voiced concern about people in the county.
However, the mass use of drugs in Linqu County is voluntary and is an attempt to battle gastric diseases prevalent in the area, the report quoted officials and some local residents as saying.
According to Wang Wenxiao, chief of the village's Communist Party committee, Xujiashangzhuang village. The health department of Linqu county supplied free medicine for some villagers to reduce incidences of gastric diseases.
"Villagers between 25 to 55 years old received health check-ups before taking medicine, and 185 of them were diagnosed with helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) infection, which would cause gastric cancers or other gastrosias," said Wang.
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