A patient has had to be cut free from his hospital bed in China and forcibly removed by police after chaining himself down and refusing to leave.
A court in Beijing ordered that the man, aged 55 and only known by his surname Chen, had to be removed from the hospital after living there for more than three years.
But when police turned up to at the hospital yesterday afternoon, they discovered that he had chained himself to the bed railings.
After being treated, he went home after a month but two months later returned complaining of pains in his left leg.
Again doctors treated him after he was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis and three months later said he was ready to go home.
He said it was the hospital’s responsibility to take care of him and refused to leave, even missing his son’s wedding.
The hospital stopped providing him with treatment in July 2012, after he was unable to pay any of his medical bills.
They were then granted a court ordered earlier in the week to have Mr Chen forcibly removed from his hospital bed.
It came after tests were carried out that showed he was healthy, even though he disputed this.
It is thought that he was taken back to his home in the Mentougou district of Beijing.
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