Hospital with corrupt chief can't offer healthy service

That being the president of a big State-owned hospital can be very lucrative is no secret; the procurement of medical equipment and medicines has long been considered a channel to get kickbacks. Still, many people's jaws dropped when it was revealed that a hospital president in Southwest China's Yunnan province owned 100 apartments with 100 parking lots and had more than 30 million yuan ($4.83 million) in cash. The source of his wealth: bribes taken to sell positions in his hospital over a decade.

Now placed under investigation, he is the biggest rent-seeker in the medical circle that the anti-corruption campaign has exposed. But he will not be the last one as long as the anti-corruption campaign continues in State-owned hospitals.

The case has once again justified the maxim that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, State-owned hospitals being no exception.