BY: News Peddlers
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Four people were wounded by a knife-wielding assailant on Saturday, at a renowned Shanghai hospital, China.
Officers raced to the more than 100-year-old Ruijin Hospital on Saturday morning after receiving calls about an attack, police said.
Videos on social media showed chaos as visitors clambered under turnstiles to get out of the hospital while doctors were seen running out with their patients, some in wheelchairs and one on a mobile bed.
A long trail of blood was seen on the marble surface of a flight of stairs in one video.
In the report of Reuters, a Shanghai resident who had arrived for a check-up just after the hospital was sealed off, declined to give her name."It's very shocking, this is very despairing. What has happened to this society?"
Hospitals are a flashpoint for many in China, who face issues from touts illegally trading appointment tickets, long queues to see doctors, and corruption that can push up the cost of receiving care.
There have been reports of patients assaulting doctors.
At the Shanghai hospital, police found a man holding a crowd hostage with a knife on the seventh floor of the outpatient department. When the man threatened to hurt the hostages, the police opened fire, subduing him, according to local police.
None of the wounded is in a life-threatening situation and the incident is being investigated, the police said.
Ruijin Hospital has been cordoned off, and all appointments cancelled, a police officer told onlookers outside.
A man was arrested on Monday after going on a stabbing spree in the city's downtown Jingan district.
(Reuters)