The doctor from Hunan Province, known as the “demon doctor,” Liu Xiangfeng, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for exaggerating patients’ conditions during his time at the Xiangya Second Hospital, leading to severe injuries for five individuals and nine disabilities.
On October 31st, the Changsha Intermediate People’s Court publicly pronounced the verdict for the case of Liu Xiangfeng. Liu Xiangfeng was charged with multiple offenses including intentional harm, bribery, and embezzlement of duty during his time at Xiangya Second Hospital, sentenced to 17 years in prison and fined 420,000 RMB.
Meanwhile, the co-defendant Luo Yuandeng in the same case was charged with intentional harm, non-state employee bribery, among other offenses, sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined 100,000 RMB.
The court stated that Liu Xiangfeng, in pursuit of extra surgical fees, either alone or in collaboration with Luo Yuandeng, exaggerated patients’ conditions and fabricated symptoms, leading to surgery on six patients without clear indications, resulting in severe injuries for five individuals, nine disabilities, and minor injuries for one person. He accepted bribes totaling over 660,000 RMB and kickbacks exceeding 3.58 million RMB.
The court also mentioned that Liu Xiangfeng’s crimes were severe with extremely negative social impacts, warranting strict punishment. However, due to his surrender, confession, and restitution of illegal gains, a lighter sentence was given based on the law.
Liu Xiangfeng was born in August 1974 in Yiyang, Hunan. He previously served as the Deputy Director of the Hunan Provincial Trauma and Emergency Medical Center and Deputy Chief Physician at the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University.
In 2022, patients and colleagues exposed serious ethical issues with Liu Xiangfeng, stating that “when seeing him for treatment, as long as there is a slight suspicion of an abnormality, whether it’s a tumor or not, he always treats it as a tumor first and proceeds with chemotherapy.” There were also reports of instances like, “for incomplete intestinal obstruction surgery by robots, if the obstruction site can’t be found after entering, a normal section of the intestine is cut out to show to the family.”
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