"GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Staff members at China's Shanxia Hospital were given helmets to protect them from a group of people who have picked fights with doctors and nurses.
The measure stems from an incident when a traffic accident victim, who initially seemed to be responding positively to treatment, died after 17 days at the hospital, Xinhua, China's official government-run news agency, reported Tuesday.
The family refused to allow an autopsy to be performed, Xinhua said. The hospital objected to being made to pay compensation to the victim's family without an autopsy to confirm cause of death.
Since then, hospital staff said a group of people visit the hospital every day to put up offensive signs, insult doctors and nurses and sometimes pick fights with them.
"It's kind of weird but we have no other choice. For our safety, our hospital decided to give everyone a helmet, including doctors, nurses, accountants and even utility men," a hospital official told Xinhua.
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