Family sues over hospital death

A lawyer for a hospital where a doctor was accused of watching a movie at the same time a patient's life-support machine was malfunctioning said that man's eventual death was not related to the incident.

Lu Yuexiang, the hospital's lawyer, told China Daily yesterday the patient's death was not a medical accident, an investigation by a panel of medical experts authorized by a local court showed.

The family of the man who died has sued Ma Xinhua, a doctor in the Xiangya Hospital under Central South University, as well as the hospital, which is in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, for the death. Information about the case was posted by famous blogger Zhang Hongfeng, the Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday.