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Professor Wu Xiaohua: My One-Year Detention in a Hefei City Mental Hospital
By Dafa Practitioner and Associate Professor Wu Xiaohua
October 27, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net)
A Healthy Person is Abducted by Police and Committed to a Mental Hospital
I was illegally detained in the Anhui Province Female Labor Camp. One day, a
police officer suddenly came to the confinement cell where I was detained and
said to me, "We are going to take you somewhere." Even those prisoners who were
ordered to monitor me 24 hours a day didn't know where I was going. I could see
by the looks on their faces that they were afraid. I was forced into a police
car and was secretly taken to a mental hospital. The destination was Section 5
of the No. 4 People's Hospital of Hefei City, Anhui Province. After placing me
into Section 5, the police left immediately and I never saw them again during
the whole year that I was there. The hospital authority did not ask me to sign
any documents when they accepted me and rejected my repeated requests to see my
family. Ten days after I was sent to the hospital the doctor told me, "The
female labor camp has found your husband and asked him to sign your admission
form, which he did, therefore, don't expect your husband to come here to take
you back home. You have to stay here. If you don't break with Falun Gong, you
will stay here until you have served your term. If you are not obedient, you
will stay here forever till you die. In any event, your work unit is willing to
pay the cost." When I met my family members later, they told me that the female
labor camp compelled them to sign the admission form, and under coercion, they
had no choice but to do so.
I found it odd that no one in the hospital interviewed me or diagnosed me
when I first arrived. I was sent directly to a ward. The head nurse issued an
order to the other nurses, who immediately swarmed around me and tried to strip
me. I called loudly to the nurses, "You are medical personnel and should abide
by your professional ethics. I am very normal and very clear-minded. I don't
need your medical treatment!" The head nurse said, "It's not us but the police
who sent you here." I answered, "Even though you are under orders, you should
still at least first diagnose me to see whether I have mental problems. If I do,
you can keep me, if not, you have the right to refuse to accept me. How can you
force me to stay at this hospital without any basic medical check-up procedure?
I am very normal and I won't stay at the hospital." The nurses all came at me
together when I was less alert. Li Wan, a female doctor, looked very fierce and
she started to verbally abuse Master and Dafa while asking others to hand her
the scissors, "Give me the scissors. I'll do it myself." She forcibly cut open
my undergarments. Then I was forced to wear special hospital clothes for mental
patients, which I wore for a whole year. For several months after I was admitted
to the hospital, the hospital authorities and the doctors never allowed me to
view my medical records.
Forcibly injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system
For nearly ten months during my yearlong stay, I was forced to take or be
injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system by the so-called
doctors and nurses. During the first stage of my detention, I was forced to take
pills three times a day, amounting to a handful each time. They refused to tell
me the names of the pills. Some of the drugs were imported. During the second
stage of my stay I had to take medicine three times a day, four pills each time.
Some of those were imported as well. Later, besides taking those medicines three
times a day, one or two pills each time, I was also given an injection and an IV
infusion. I had frequently asked the hospital administrators to stop giving me
medicines, but my requests were completely ignored. As a result, my physical
movements became sluggish. I slept long hours and had difficulty waking up. My
mind was foggy. My menstrual periods (normal when I first entered the hospital)
had stopped. My reactions were slow, and I felt uneasy whether sitting or
standing. (I recovered after resuming my practice of the Dafa exercises later.)
Forced to undergo electro shock therapy
During the persecution I was also forced to undergo electro shock therapy.
Five or six nurses and assistant nurses tied me down on the bed for several
days, using five cloth strips to immobilize me, with my arms and legs stretched
out wide. When they gave me daily electro shock therapy, the electric needles
were inserted into my temples. The nerves of my whole body started to seize and
I was in extreme pain. All the pores of my body were in agony and my hair felt
as if it were being pulled off my scalp. When they applied electro shock, I was
tied to the bed, spread eagle. The doctor-in-charge Li Wan said to me, "If you
don't cooperate, I will increase the voltage." Although some other doctors such
as Huang Bao advised her not to do so, she personally administered the electric
shocks. Electric shocks are much higher in voltage than electric needles. When
shocked, my nerves twitched; horror scenes in blue and green colors appeared in
my head and I could hear a strange, hoarse sound, like wind. They used a
microphone-shaped black device to administer the electric shocks. Li Wan pressed
the black hammers against my temples, sometimes harder and sometimes softer,
which made the process more horrible. She told me, "We have plenty of ways to
deal with you if you don't eat, and we will use the means for dealing with
insane people. If you don't cooperate, you will stay here for a long time and
will not be allowed to go home."
Force-fed with medicine and food
I was tied flat to the bed, immobilized with my arms and legs stretched out
wide while a nurse force-fed me. The nurse's mind was poisoned by Jiang Zemin's
propaganda and she verbally abused Dafa as well as threatened me. Without
waiting for me to swallow a bite of food, she would stuff the next bite in. The
food was spewed everywhere - on my eyes, face, neck and clothes. They also
inserted a tube through my nose into my stomach to force-feed me. If I resisted,
they would tie me up, pull my hair, or slap my face. (The one who slapped me is
a nurse surnamed Zhou, and she is also the one who cursed at Dafa the most; the
one who was most skillful in threatening and deceiving is the head nurse
surnamed Wang)
Sometimes I was forced to sit on a chair while being force-fed. They pushed
my face against the back of the chair, pinched my nose and pulled my hair. And
they would grip my lower jaw and quickly insert the tube into my nose when I was
less alert. If they failed to insert the tube, they would become angry and
started cursing; if they did it successfully they would be pleased with
themselves and say some derogatory words. (Nurse Zhuo and the head nurse Wang
were the major culprits.) They treated Dafa practitioners as political
prisoners. One of the head nurses said to me more than once, "You are not a
mental patient. You are a special patient in our hospital. In fact you are a
political offender."
In the beginning when they force-fed me through my nose, the doctor wanted to
insert the tube all the way into my stomach. That way, my nose and stomach would
feel the maximum pain. The end of the tube was wrapped with gauze and tied to my
hair in front. The tube hung in front of my face and made me look ugly. I was
not insane but was persecuted and made to look like an insane person. These
medical personnel were deceived by Jiang Zemin's propaganda against Falun Gong
and they persecuted me and forced me into this state. I refused their
force-feedings. By then I had been fed through the nose twice daily for nearly
20 days. My nasal cavity was lacerated, bleeding and swollen, which caused more
pain when the tubes were inserted. Doctor Li Wan said to me, "If you refuse to
eat, I will leave the tube in for a long time. The rubber tube can become toxic
and cause cancer. I would like to see what you do then. We will not let you go
home." As it became harder and harder to insert the tube through my injured nose
they had to switch to infusion. However, my veins had become so thin that every
time they gave me an infusion it would take at least five or six tries to find
the vein, sometimes seven or eight tries. My arms and the back of my hands were
covered with bruises.
When I refused to take medicine I was often verbally abused and threatened.
Once, Supervisor Wang Li ordered five or six nurses to surround me, and they
dragged and pulled me around. I told them, "You all know I don't have any mental
disease. It's illegal to hold me in the hospital. Every citizen has a right to
choose medical treatment. You are treating me like this and I will sue you when
I get out." Wang Li said, "Sue us if you wish, but we are not afraid at all."
Not only doctors in charge talked like this, the nurses also spoke similar words
more than once. I frequently repeated my statement to the head of the hospital
and his assistants when they inspected wards that I had no mental problem and it
was illegal to hold me in the hospital. They all avoided my request, and I was
kept in the hospital all that time. I was often tied up, about 30 to 40 times
during the year I was in the hospital. Sometimes it lasted 20 minutes and other
times it would last more than two days. My hands were swollen from tying and the
swelling would last two or three days.
One day after I was held in the hospital for over half a year, doctor Li Wan
told me in person, "I have observed you for a long time. Indeed, you don't have
any mental disorder." About nine months after I was sent to the hospital, doctor
Li Wan said to me again, "I went to talk to the Political and Judiciary
Committee and people from the "610 Office" and told them that you didn't have
any mental disease. I even told them to talk to you in person and told them that
in less than half a year they would see themselves that you are not a mental
patient." I asked her, "Then why do you continue to give me the drugs that are
used to treat mental disorders?" She said, "You are under direct control of
higher authorities, who issued orders for me to give you the medicine and the
doses were also decided by them. Their orders are that you must take them."
While in the hospital, I kept asking to see the leaders of my work unit, but
no one came. Doctor Li Wan and my family members told me that the authorities
and the leaders of my work unit told them to tell me that if I wrote a statement
to say I would not practice Falun Gong any more, I would be released immediately
and they would resume my teaching position in the institute, otherwise I would
have to stay there.
After I was allowed to leave the hospital, I was detained at a female labor
camp and was monitored 24 hours a day. There were no follow-up visits from the
hospital. Because of being detained at the hospital for so long, I had a
horrible memory of the environment at the mental hospital, the scenes, the
things and even their names. My family, too, would avoid mentioning anything
related to that hospital. They also suffered physical and mental pain. They had
nightmares and worried that I would be discriminated against in society and
suspected by others. They suffered depression and were scared. After I came back
home, I persisted in diligently studying the Fa and practiced the exercises, and
my damaged health is now recovered.
Mental hospital involved in the persecution:
No. 4 People's Hospital of Hefei
City, Anhui Province (Section 5)
Address: Huangshan Road, Hefei City
Telephone: 86-551-3636082, ext. 2065
(Section 5), ext 2011 (the head of the hospital)
Name and position of those who
participated in the persecution:
Li Zeai, head of the hospital
Li Xiaosi, assistant to the head of
the hospital (also in charge of the hospital's "Office 610"*)
Li Wan, physician-in-charge
Work units responsible for the
forceful admission to the mental hospital:
Anhui Province Female Labor
Camp
Sang Lianhua, head of the labor camp
Pan Lei, head of the labor camp
"610" Office
Anhui Institute of Architecture & Industry: [Note: The then president and party secretary Wu Jiagui has recently left his
post and vice president Xia Luping is now in charge of daily work. Wang Shiming
is in charge of the Discipline Inspection Committee. Head of Security Department
is Luu Changwei and section head is Hong Houlai. Hu Chuanjian took up the
position of party secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee later on]
Hong Houlai, 86-551-3513102 (work),
86-551-3510203 (home)
Xia Luping, 86-551-3510061
Wang Shiming, 86-551-3510190
Hu Chuanjian, 86-551-5107760 (home),
86-551-3522903 (work)
Victim
Name of victim: Wu Xiaohua, female, 50 years old
Time of persecution: From October 23, 2001 (date of admission to the
hospital) to October 8, 2002 (date of discharge from the hospital)
Residence: Hefei City, Anhui Province
Education: Technical college degree
Profession and position: Associate
professor
Medical history of mental disorder:
None
Family medial history of mental
disorder: None
Number of days held in the mental
hospital: 350 days
The reason for being sent to the mental hospital: Because of practicing Falun
Gong, I was illegally detained at the female labor camp, and went on a hunger
strike for 10 days to protest against the detention.
*The "610 Office" is an agency specifically established to persecute Falun
Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all
other political and judiciary systems. |