贵州省扇两岁儿童耳光的护士已被开除，该儿童当时深受先天性心脏病折磨，做完手术后正在重症监护室监护，该护士扇耳光煽了七次，第二天这名儿童被宣布死亡。调查显示扇耳光并不是想要将儿童从手术中唤醒，这名护士的行为严重违反了护士守则，也反映了医疗工作人员职业道德的缺乏。
A nurse in southwest China's Guizhou province has been fired for slashing the face of a two-year-old patient in the intensive care center of a local hospital, local health authorities said Friday.
The provincial health authorities launched an investigation in response to public outrage following local media reports saying a nurse slashed the face of a child suffering from the congenital heart disease seven times just after the child finished an operation and the child died the next day.
The investigation found that the fierce slash was not intended to wake up the child from surgery and the action seriously violated the nursing norms and reflected the loss of work ethics of the medical staff, the provincial health bureau said in a statement.
The person in charge of the intensive care unit at the Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital was suspended from his post and the head nurse was removed from her post, it added.
In a letter published Friday, the hospital publicly apologized to the families of the dead child and the general public for the severe violation of hospital regulations and loss of work ethnics.
Earlier on Thursday, the hospital struck a settlement with the dead child's families over the medical dispute, the bureau said, without giving details.
