China hospital demolished 'with people inside'

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A hospital in China has been bulldozed while still in use, reportedly causing doctors inside to flee and burying six bodies from its morgue under rubble, state media say.

The Number Four Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan province was partially demolished on Thursday amid a land dispute, Xinhua news agency said.

Hospital staff told reporters equipment worth over $600,000 was damaged.

The case has sparked outrage in China, where forced demolitions are common.

Doctors told local media that several men in camouflage uniforms showed up at the hospital, in Huiji district, on Thursday, and began bulldozing the building.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35262802

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

1. An idea for corporate America!

/sarcasm

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. "...where forced demolitions are common."

Questions:
Why?
By whom?
Under what circumstances?
What benefit?

The article wasn't specific about the nature of the land dispute so I'm wondering why forced demolition was the course of action.

Curious......

[Warpy]

4. By corporations, with the blessing of the local government

in order to build business and residential towers, many of which in China are empty. Most of the forced demolitions have been of centuries old neighborhoods in the big cities. I suppose it's spreading.

[HeiressofBickworth]

5. Ah, I get it

Eminent Domain

Happens to our older, poorer neighborhoods in commercially viable locations.

Just didn't recognize it's Chinese translation "forced demolition"

[Wilms]

6. Put your seat belt on.

And Then There Was One

Across China, where new developments are keeping pace with the rapidly growing economy, reports continue to surface of so-called "nail houses." These properties, standing alone amid the ruins of other buildings, belong to owners who have stood their ground and resisted demolition. Defiant property owners say the compensation being offered is too low. Some of them have remained in their homes for years as their court cases drag on and new construction continues all around them. A few homeowners have won their fights, but most have lost. Meanwhile, these nail houses have become powerful symbols of resistance against the world's fastest-growing major economy.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/and-then-there-was-one/390501/

[Warpy]

7. Also, "urban renewal," that horrible policy of the 1950s-1970s

that demolished old but vibrant urban neighborhoods, displaced everybody with nowhere for them to go, and built high rises either for the rich or so cheaply for the poor that no one in his right mind ever wanted to live in them.

[NV Whino]

3. They lost their way while trying to find the Mao statue?

[AZ Progressive]

8. You can count on China in making America look civilized n/t

[Renew Deal]

9. That made the morgue to burial process much more efficient.

[ryan_cats]

10. I blame

I blame Obamacare.