After staying there continuously for six years, because of a financial dispute with the medical institution, a Chinese man and his parents decided to move out of a Beijing hospital.
Nobody really wants to spend more time in hospitals than they have to, which is why most people can’t wait to be discharged. But the reality isn’t always that.
In 2014, with symptoms including nausea, vomiting, and unstable gait, a man named Tian was admitted to a top Beijing hospital.
After a surgical operation, he was supposed to spend a few days there, but following a dispute about his medical bill, he ended up staying there along with his parents for six years.
Last week, when the hospital squatters eventually decided to move out, this strange story finally ended.
In 2014, Tian turned up at the hospital complaining of two months of feeling nausea and vomiting, and nine days of being on shaky legs.
For the entire time that he received care for his health issues, his parents accompanied him and lived with him.
But Tian discovered that he had to pay for his stay when the time came for him to be released, so he accused the hospital of giving him inappropriate treatment and refused to leave.
Tian and his parents transformed his hospital room into a home of their own, carrying food and other personal belongings in pots and pans and flooding the place.
The three persisted, also spending the Lunar New Year, a holiday usually associated with families gathering at their homes, in the hospital, despite many efforts from the hospital to get them to leave.
On several occasions, the hospital took the family to court, and also waived demands in 2019 for 1.26 million yuan ($195,000) in medical expenses only to get them to leave.
They offered evidence that Tian needed no medical treatment and could be released, claiming that he was employing hospital resources that could be used to treat actual patients.
However, last year Tian countersued the hospital alleging medical negligence, and the saga continued.
Last week, Beijing Xicheng District People’s Court Judge Luo Shengli ruled that Tian and his parents were to finally leave the hospital ward they had been squatting in for the past six years, but that they were still entitled to hospital compensation.
The family accepted the 480,000 yuan ($73,000) and agreed to finally move out of the ward. They were transported home in a hospital ambulance.
Source: Oddity Central