Awoman surnamed Chen from Laiwu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, welcomed her second child after a natural birth in 2020. However, she soon noticed the child couldn’t properly move its right arm. Her suspicion was that the midwives had pulled the baby out with too much force.
Instead of going to court and filing a lawsuit, the woman and her husband filed a complaint with the Jinan No.2 Medical Dispute People’s Mediation Committee, demanding compensation from the hospital.
The committee is responsible for resolving disputes between doctors and patients in the district through people’s mediation, a non-judicial community-based dispute resolution method for resolving conflicts and improving harmony.
The committee suggested the two parties hire a third-party evaluator to investigate the case and determine the hospital’s responsibility. The evaluating agency then found that the hospital was indeed accountable for the child’s debility, classifying it as a grade-eight disability. China has a 10-grade disability rating system,
