Across China: Henan

Health director loses job

Geng Aiping, deputy director of the health bureau of Xinmi in Henan province, has been sacked for failing to perform her duty in the case of a migrant worker who underwent open-chest surgery to prove he had caught a major occupational disease.

Xinmi native Zhang Haichao, 28, had his chest opened in late June at a key hospital in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to prove he had pneumoconiosis, a major occupational hazard. Previously, the government-designated Zhengzhou Occupational Disease Prevention and Treatment Center had diagnosed Zhang through chest X-ray analysis as having tuberculosis, which denied him free treatment and compensation.