A cancer patient who stabbed a doctor in a Beijing hospital has been sentenced to 15 years in jail.
The Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court Friday also ordered Wang Baoming to pay a fine of 530,000 yuan ($84,048), Xinhua reported.
Wang, 54, stabbed Xu Wen, a surgeon at Tongren Hospital, 18 times in her arms, head and back on Sep 15, 2011, after accusing her of malpractice during an operation in 2006.
He attacked Xu for her unsuccessful surgery to remove his laryngeal cancer in 2006, the media report said.
Wang said in a blog that the surgery failed and he lost his speech and sense of smell. He claimed that he was a disabled man and he wanted to take revenge on Xu.
Xu had received serious injured but survived. Police detained Wang shortly after the attack.
China has seen growing numbers of violent doctor-patient disputes.
The latest incident involves a 17-year-old boy who stabbed a medical practitioner to death and injured three others last month at a hospital in the northeastern city of Harbin, after he was not given immediate treatment.