Foreign reporter experiences Chinese kindness and hospital's efficiency

A foreign journalist experienced Chinese people's kindness and hospital's efficiency first hand during a recent trip to Nanjing, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, according to a report on BBC News' Chinese website.

The reporter, Anne Flaherty, tumbled on a street on a rainy day minutes after she went out from her hotel for shopping and her head began bleeding.

She went straight back to the hotel where the staff tried to stop her bleeding with a towel. Then the employees called the cab and three of them accompanied her to the hospital.

Flaherty said despite all kinds of noises she heard upon arriving at the hospital, she was able to sense a special atmosphere of order and efficiency in the place.

She was received by three nurses who took her blood pressure and temperature while the hotel staff helped her with the procedures.

Fifteen minutes later, Flaherty was taken to a treatment room where a doctor stitched her wound while a senior doctor assisted in translating the diagnoses.

But the smooth process hit a bump when a hotel employee used an app to translate the injection as an "experimental medicine".

According to Flaherty, she was about to run for her life when the senior doctor assured her that it was only an allergy test.

It turned out that the app had wrongly translated the Chinese word for "test" into "experiment" in English.

Couple of hours later, she was back at the hotel with a bandage on her head. Although it will take a few more days before a full recovery Flaherty said she wants to thank the Chinese people and the hospital for their kindness.