Woman Faints in Shenzhen Subway, Dies After Being Left Alone for 50 Mins

Woman Faints in Shenzhen Subway, Dies After Being Left Alone for 50 Mins
Feb 28, 2014 By eChinacities.com

Liang Ya, a 35 year old Executive at IBM, passed away after an unfortunate incident in Shenzhen’s underground that took place on February 17. According to reports, she fainted on the stairs, while transferring from one line to another. Metro staff was alerted, but it was a further 50 minutes before they arrived with police and during that time no one went to her aid. Liang Ya has died by the time they arrived.

Family members said that she did not eat breakfast that morning and low blood sugar may have caused her to faint. An investigation has been launched to determine whether her death could have been prevented if she received medical attention earlier.

Source: jiangsu.china.com.cn

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drdave

These people never learn. Something similar happened about 2 years ago in GZ. It was in the news all over the world..a toddler was ran over by a car...laid in it's own blood as people walked right by...then was hit by a van. Still, not one chinese person did a damn thing and the little girl died. Shortly after that I was working in a kindergarten in GZ that had a lot of safety issues. I tried so many times to point out the problems and offer solutions, but every single time the director of the kindergarten just made excuse after excuse for why my solutions would not work. Some of her reasons were the most ridiculous I have ever heard. What the heck is wrong with these people? Someone please explain !

Mar 05, 2014 12:49 Report Abuse

JeanF

Once I stayed 30 mn on Changning Lu at Zhong Shan Park protecting a woman from the rain with my umbrella, she was lying on the street in the traffic jam near her bicycle, no chinese people stopped, they were looking at her with empty eyes or even like it was disturbing them to see this, they were afraid to do something and waste their precious time for themselves and their family, I had time to take back her shoes and bag that was around her 5/10 meters around her, that she lost in a shock I guess, it was so far from her, she was almost unconscious but I could hear her suffer with her very weak voice (this moment you really care for someone even if you don't know her). Then a policeman arrived (no ambulance for hospital yet), like "chips" you know the TV serie, relax, I even had to tell him to put his motorbike across the street to stop other cars. Then I just left, too sad, better leaving than to see more empty eyes and no compassion. Here, I'm loosing the most beautiful part of myself sometimes, I was just thinking exactly this today, I become like them sometimes because if not I stay sensitive for nothing, it just doesn't work here to care for other people, people chinese or some foreigners think you are an idiot (also like "instantkarma review" I feel just a little bit shame kind of "Biblical" like he said, I stay with my thoughts, can't just help naturally for little things if I do it I feel stupid, feel more and more embarrassed to help old people or give money to beggars (sometimes I see some fake beggars then I saw them later walking a normal way with their piece of wood under arms, funny but ... well they do tricks in Europe too. I also know by experience that some chinese humanitarian organizations are not in some "far provinces around" for only help (...), some pretending orphans have family even they stay in orphanages so the family can receive money (...)Big progress has to be done in China also. ...

Mar 03, 2014 18:56 Report Abuse

October1st

Yes. True. But you cannot magnify an individual case and put the blame on all its people. The metro station the sister died at, shuiwantou, has much less population around the area. Only a few passengers you can see on normal days moving around. By now we do not see the whole thing, the police is still probing into more details ..I live in Shenzhen. I know it better how many warm-hearted people, at all range of ages, have offered help to each other. I observed many good and positive behaviors and many people has strong intention to do so. You cannot refuse or even hold discrimination/hatred by such individual incident. If you do, shame on yourself as well, because you are inviding people by its nationalities.

Mar 03, 2014 11:49 Report Abuse

Samsara

"you cannot hold discrimination by such individual incident"... INDIVIDUAL INCIDENT? Are you serious? The perception that Chinese people are indifferent to other people in distress is the result of HUNDREDS of publicised cases, and OUR OWN observations. Anyone who has lived in China for a few years has seen what happens when a person falls off a bike, gets smacked in the face by her boyfriend, etc. Everyone stands clear instead of helping, and some people take pictures on their phones.

Mar 03, 2014 14:45 Report Abuse

adamgan

Sure, I completely concur with what you said. But I have no intention to generalize any individual case and arbitrarily tarnish the populace, none at all. Concerning that it is not an individual case and stories alike have happened from time to time and such phenomenon has been under hot debates for quite some while. I do believe "weird" things of such kind happen only among minority people, but people are occasionally led to misunderstand that this is phenomenal.

Mar 03, 2014 15:04 Report Abuse

October1st

Well, Samsara. Unfortunately you didn't catch what I'm tring to say here. Maybe my language skill is not good enough :D

Mar 03, 2014 16:10 Report Abuse

Robk

I agree with you and Samsara, I have run into both but the percentage of people not willing to help or lack empathy is just WAY to high and disturbing. I believe it is tainted a lot of good-heartened people and the government needs to put more energy into educating the masses that they SHOULD help each other.

Mar 04, 2014 13:18 Report Abuse

October1st

Thanks for your feedback, Robk. "Once bitten twice shy". I just think this is not a thing to blame; I've felt much more anger than smypathy in some replies here. Then that 'sharp' blaming tone and curses putting on other repliers just made themselves awkward too. They are easier to get angry, a lot of anger, just like actists or terrorists. They are dangerous themselves and I do not want them to throw dark things on here as the mouth could. And, as an angery people they are, are they different from the people they are blaming?

Mar 05, 2014 10:44 Report Abuse

adamgan

I feel a heck of shame as a native Chinese. I'm living and working in Shanghai, but even in metropolitan cities like Shanghai, weird events like this are not fresh at all. We kinda have lost ourselves in the ocean of material prosperity and compromised the basic conscience and sense of humanity subconsciously. This is really a badly saddening story that sheds enormous shame on China and the Chinese society. We have been bathed in Confucianism for thousands of years wherein caring and regard for each other is the centerpiece of human morality. It seems ostensibly that the market of the great classic has shrunk sharply in the contemporary China, but I'd rather to believe that it has never demised fundamentally in the Chinese people.If you look at things around rural area, majority people there are really caring and have a great sense of regard for each other. I don't think there's anybody specifically to blame and we need to look at the tragic story in the big picture: What has happened to the entire society and humanity ? What has happened to the social ideology ? What has poisoned the soul of the Chinese people ? Obviously it's beyond my reach to have the final say.

Mar 03, 2014 10:23 Report Abuse

Robk

Adam, if more Chinese were you like and had a sense of self-reflection and self-improvement in areas more than just wealth... I think China's future would be much brighter. I agree totally.

Mar 04, 2014 13:16 Report Abuse

adamgan

Thank you, Robk. I assure you that most of the Chinese people share the same viewpoint.As a nation with a rich history and colorful culture that stretches over 5,000 years, there must be something ideologically rooted among its people and it's the universal value of caring not only ourselves but each other. I never think it's too late to be pessimistic to steer the status quo from its wrong way.

Mar 04, 2014 15:16 Report Abuse

Matt55EL

I feel that the cultural revolution purged the majority of Confucianism and Buddhism from the core of china leaving only fragments of the ideologies to disseminate through the time until now. While nature abhors a vacuum the wind rushes in to take its place and in this case it appears to be the callous pursuit of wealth that has replaced the values of the by gone era.

Mar 24, 2014 11:38 Report Abuse

Guest2541300

it happened to me. i once helped a woman up on her feet after she had a collision with a motor bike. happy as i was and i unknowingly told my chinese GF only to be shocked by her response.welcome to China

Mar 02, 2014 22:25 Report Abuse

Samsara

It's the behaviour of mainland Chinese people that we are lamenting; not their race. Take you for example: Instead of expressing anger or sympathy, you DENY THAT ANYTHING HAPPENED. That's the same attitude as people who walk past an unconscious woman and pretend she isn't there. If you have an accident in public, I hope everyone who walks past decides that your existence is "unverified".

Mar 02, 2014 16:59 Report Abuse

Guest554626

It's pretty sad the way Chinese people don't give a shit about each other. How can someone be lying down for 50 min and still nobody offers rescue. Careless people! What kind of culture is that?!

Mar 01, 2014 20:28 Report Abuse

lightend

looks like it was rush hour as well, so even more people went past this young woman on the floor.

Mar 03, 2014 03:28 Report Abuse

lightend

ohh man, just found that people had recorded the woman on the floor on their phones, then walked on.. also there was a large crowd of people around her, 1 guy went down and checked on her, then stood up and seemed to be ready to leave.

Mar 03, 2014 03:31 Report Abuse

JeanF

Incredibly wealthy people have no special country to live in, they can live wherever they want and transfer their money anywhere they want. Chinese children officials and children businessmen already moved somewhere else and got other countries nationalities. As most governments show their own countries in the center of the world on geographical maps, any government tell a better economical situation to the rest of the world. But the past China economical healthy years are gone, GDP, GNP, PMI, CPI, PPI were fake like everywhere in the world to stabilize the populations mentality "Wait, it's gonna be better soon". The chinese economy has slowed down and will get down. Foreigners companies are leaving China for Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, even chinese businessmen relocate their factories in some African countries, endless run to reduce costs and keep more. Officials and businessmen are "transferring" money, buying in overseas real estate, buying entire foreigners companies, taking parts in multinational companies ... Poor Chinese population know what they lived, live and will live and know they can't get out of the country. They only have one way to live, stand and smile ... Those who misappropriate money and make the country institutions weak and lack of budget should be hunted and sentenced. Those who don't give the education to their citizens when they have the power to do it and give them the idea to simply help someone else ... And all those fake hypocritical foreigners who play the game and show big fake smiles and "so happy" attitudes to have their "piece of cake" should be reeducated. All these cupid people ... For those who are not afraid about dying in the street or anywhere : "Welcome to the next real adventure in China". The way it was, the way it is. Fraud and financial criminals are responsible.

Mar 01, 2014 19:17 Report Abuse

sharkies

Here we go again. I cannot comprehend how these people think. What a disgusting race of pathetic, heartless robots. Chinese only care about themselves and have no regard for anything or anyone else. This is evident in their daily behaviour, eg. cutting in lines, bursting into elevators before people get out, shouting on their phones in public, holding their children while they piss on the street...the list goes on. Chinese are simply uncivilised and will continue to be for a very long time. I feel sorry for this woman and don't understand how people can walk on by and not offer any assistance whatsoever. It really shames me to live here sometimes. But I guess in the end the system is partly to blame as well. If you do try to help someone here you could end up being sued by the very person you render assistance to. What a backwards country.

Mar 01, 2014 11:14 Report Abuse

Guest824060

typical TIS => That is China!

Mar 01, 2014 11:01 Report Abuse

coineineagh

The creepy thing is: this probably happens all the time. It's just the fact that she was an IBM exec that made it worthy of the news at all.

Mar 01, 2014 09:13 Report Abuse

Robk

I assure you it does happen all the time. And to make matters worse, EVEN if they get to the hospital... the hospital staff are very cold and uncaring. So that's like a double whammy. You are lucky if someone helps, and even if you get to the hospital, they will demand the money upfront and probably not even give good medical assistance (I know this from experience). This is one of the BIGGEST reasons why Chinese put family in high regard. Because they fear if family is not around, then nobody will help them out at all in their time of need.

Mar 01, 2014 16:28 Report Abuse

instantkarma

Seems I'm getting Biblical here (and I'm actually not a Xtian) but the questions are Am I my brother's keeper Who really was the neighbour? (parable of the Good Samaritan) When did we see you hungry or thirsty? The problem is the Chinese mentality of only helping their family, connections and those that can do something for them. Total self-interest and lack of empathy and compassion. Maybe they should listen to a Dalai Lama talk if he wasn't banned! Add to that idiot judges (like the one in Nanjing? I hear) who rule that those that assist have financial obligations and so helpers get clobbered legally. So all they do is take pictures of those needing help on their phones. Yes I agree a damn shame and a waste of a life. Is she a mother? Did she suffer while dying?

Mar 01, 2014 06:10 Report Abuse

coineineagh

A damn shame indeed. Shame on this country. Humanity has been forgotten completely. What goes on in people's heads, if anything? They fear death, but don't see the correlation between helping others = helping yourself? Tragic.

Mar 01, 2014 02:52 Report Abuse

bill8899

Just a damn shame.

Feb 28, 2014 23:49 Report Abuse