Jiang Yanyong Quotes

Jiang Yanyong was a Chinese physician who publicized a coverup of the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in Mainland China. Born into the Zhejiang Xingye Bank family, Jiang was the chief physician of the 301 Hospital in Beijing and a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jiang was under periodic house arrest due to his role in exposing the coverup of SARS outbreak. According to a report in The New York Times, Jiang was portrayed as a bad role model in Chinese educational material, for "harming the interests of the nation". Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1931 – 12. March 2023
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Jiang Yanyong Quotes

“I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing...All the doctors and nurses who saw yesterday's news were furious...Zhang Wenkang is ... abandoning even his most basic standards of integrity as a doctor.”

On April 3, 2003, Respond for China Health Minister Zhang Wenkang report on national television a mere 12 cases of SARS. Outraged Surgeon Forces China To Swallow a Dose of the Truth https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105097464285708600

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