Thread: Chinese woman's 'needle ordeal'

Chinese woman's 'needle ordeal'
Last Updated: Friday, 7 September 2007, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK



The needles were revealed by hospital X-rays

Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman.

They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen's body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a boy.

Some of these needles have penetrated vital organs, such as the lungs, liver and kidneys. One has even broken into three pieces in the woman's brain.

The needles were discovered only when Ms Luo went to hospital complaining of blood in her urine.

She was given a routine X-ray, which revealed the needles. Up until then she had been in good health.

Operations needed

A team of 23 doctors, including five from the United States and Canada, are debating how best to remove the needles at the Richland International Hospital in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province.

Xu Mei, the chief doctor at the hospital, told the BBC that removing the needles would be a long, complicated procedure requiring several operations.

The first of those is expected to take place next week when seven needles will be removed.

The hospital is doing the first operation, which will cost 170,000 yuan ($22,500, £11,200), for free.

But Ms Luo, from rural Songming County in Yunnan Province, will have to raise money to fund the other operations.

Doctors believe the needles were inserted into the woman when she was just a few days old by her grandparents, whom they believe were disappointed that she was not a boy.

But there is no way to confirm this theory, as the grandparents are now dead.

In many rural areas boys were - and still are - valued more highly than girls. One reason is that they can carry on the family name.

news.bbc.co.uk

So, the link is in the headline. Please make note of it.

Really sick f*cking people do this sh*t.


I hope the parents were prosecuted. Tried. Hung.

I doubt it.

So, the link is in the headline. Please make note of it.

keh ??

"Richland International Hospital in Kunming"

Unusual name for a hospital in China.

Appalling story.

The demographic results of China's one child policy, combined with it's appalling prejudice against female children, are being felt already.
Too many men, not enough women. Abortion and downright murder account for the imbalance.

Expect to see a growing market for imported brides for China, and relentless upward pressure on the price of Prostitutes- especially in Asia. No doubt people trafficking as well. A stint in Macau or Shanghai will become a lucrative proposition for those females so inclined. It already is in Hong Kong.

As a result of a few decades of infanticide China now has a disproportionate ratio of men to women.

Originally Posted by sabang

The demographic results of China's one child policy, combined with it's appalling prejudice against female children, are being felt already. Too many men, not enough women. Abortion and downright murder account for the imbalance.

It's working even better than they had hoped. If the country ends up all male they'll be none of the sick fuckers left. Shame.

erm, before we all suggest to cut their balls off etc....

But there is no way to confirm this theory, as the grandparents are now dead.

so how do they know?

^ Sure, but she didn't put them there herself.

yep we did a study on this subject at school, and apparently there are many a young body buried in the ground all around china, the family could not get money for brides they had to pay the prospective husbands family for the privalage of getting married, as poverty was rife, people simply could not afford girls.

but sticking pins in babies, sick fcks

Originally Posted by sabang

^ Sure, but she didn't put them there herself.

so then it must have been the grandparents and it must have been cos they didnt want a girl.

righto, glad thats cleared up.

carry on.

doc ..i,m suffering from pins and needles......sorry

Originally Posted by kingwilly

so then it must have been the grandparents and it must have been cos they didnt want a girl. righto, glad thats cleared up.

Or the parents, but whoever did it were really evil.

Had she died from one of these needles in her liver or any vital organ as a baby, it would not have been a painless death.

It seems almost a miracle that she has reached adulthood and only now has blood in her urine. She should have got septicaemia as a child.

I think she was planning on hijacking a plane. She should be apprehended, sent to Guantanamo and given rice and fishheads (strike that) cheeseburgers for the next 40 years.

Did I say that out loud? Sorry.

Sad to think her grandparents could be such backwater nitwits. We often moan about how dysfunctional Thailand is, I believe China makes LOS look progressive.

How did the needle get into her brain? I wonder if the grandparents shoved it into the soft spot on the back of her head when she was an infant. Imagine.....