China's civil administrations reacted instantly following a Thursday report 
about a retired veteran who suffered from a painful leg injury at a county-level 
nursing home for months in Hebei province. 
 
 
   Veteran Yuan Zhengxin sits in a chair 
 and his legs are bandaged to simply deal with the discharge of pus. 
 [sina.com]
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Instructed by the state's Ministry 
of Civil Affairs, the local civil administration has ordered the director of the 
nursing home in Lingshou county, Zhao Jun, to conduct a self-examination on 
Thursday. It revealed that further punishments will be worked out, including 
possibly dismissing him as the chief of the home. 
Yuan Zhengxin, a retired veteran of the former Voluntary Army of China whose 
legs are in critical condition, has been taken to hospital for treatment. 
The Yanzhao Metropolis News disclosed in a Thursday report that 16 elderly 
people living in the nursing home suffered from shabby living conditions. 
In the report, the elders complained they were not attended to and living in 
unheated rooms. 
Yuan Zhengxin, one of the residents, most of whom once took part in China's 
Liberation War and the Korean War in the country's early years, has been unable 
to walk due to the discharge of pus in both his legs. 
According to Yuan's brother, his condition began months after Yuan fractured 
a rib in March when he was washing his sheets. However, the nursing home failed 
to take him to see a doctor and paid little attention to his injury, worsening 
his condition. 
The director of the county's bureau of civil affairs, Wang Jinmin, said he 
was shocked by the incident since all allocations from the government's finances 
have been in right place and there was enough for the livelihood and medical 
care of these old people.