Manage donations well

Any waste of donated money or materials constitutes an abuse of the benevolence of the donors. And it is unforgivable.

A report on medicine and medical materials left unused in a makeshift hospital in suburban Beijing's Changping district six years after the hospital was shut down has brought this issue to the surface. The materials were donated by enterprises and people from all walks of life for the fight against SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).

With Beijing reeling under the epidemic, the relief materials donated were worth more than 70 million yuan ($10.2 million) in the city. Of them, materials worth 15 million yuan were left unused, and some of them are now unusable.