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Who Could Comment Chuan-Guo Xiao?
Li-Hui Di, Science News (Chinese) Oct. 27, 2009
With the help from her parents, Fang (pseudonym) comes into the room with her crippled legs.
She is one of the patients who have had the surgeries of Xiao’s “artificial reflex arc” (Xiao’s Procedure). Her situation was not improved even got worse when one and a half years ago she received this Procedure. Thus now, she came to Beijing and is looking for further treatment.
Fang is not the only victim of the Xiao Procedure, On October 16, the mothers of other two children suffered with spina bifida filed lawsuits against Henan Shen Yuan Urological Surgery Hospital. They stated that the incontinence diseases of their children were not improved after the Xiao Procedure three years ago. Moreover, other patients who took same surgeries were not cured either at the same period, which is much different to the overall success rate of 85% in the hospital propaganda. The worst is that the left leg of a kid starts to atrophy and deform, leaving a serious side-effect.
Shame of the Patient
The doctor who is treating Fang told the News: “It is not convenient to comment on his own colleagues, but we could hear the voices from the patients.”
At the end of 2007, the mother of Fang noticed the cure effectiveness of the Xiao’s Procedure from the propaganda of the CCTV. Although she got little improvement to her spina bifida, Fang had received five operations before 2007. Her mother couldn’t give up any chance and wanted to have a try.
“I have had consulted doctors at that time,” Fang’s father told the News, “ And the doctors didn’t suggest to have this operation, her mother was too impatient to give up this glimmer of hope.”
From TV programs and internet, her father leaned that she could receive this surgery of Xiao’s Procedure in Zhengzhou. But he was disappointed and could not even believe his eyes that the operation environment in hospital was so poor, when he paid a visit there at first. Then he learned further that the inventor of this Procedure, Chuan-Guo Xiao, was in Wuhan Xiehe hospital at that moment.
In March 2008, the whole family of Fang came to Wuhan by train and they saw Chuan-Guo Xiao from an international seminar there. Her father said “There were some foreigner journalists and scholars joined the seminar as well as we patient families. Some patients came from Vietnam, some came from Taiwan. Dozes of patient families were there and I still have seven contacts of them. I never heard any of us were cured by the Xiao’s Procedure, but it was told to have a success rate of 60% at that moment. ”
Fang’s father said, according to the promise of the Xiao’s Procedure, the situation of her daughter could be improved obviously in half of a year or in one year. But now, one and a half years have past, nothing was improved. They were told by doctors that to treat the spina bifida by Xiao’s reflect arc, it was necessary to use the nerve from a leg to connect another nerve system of her bladder and it was better to use the nerve of her healthy right leg rather than the one from her sick left leg. Fang’s family were also told, her right leg would be a little slower than usual but could recover in three or four months, maximum in half a year. But now, more than one year has past, both of her legs are still sick, and the urinary of her bladder has not been cured.
“I feel it is too hard for the famers to treat the disease for their kids, because they need to get enough money (around 30,000 RMB) by hard working or borrowing from others. When I was in Zhengzhou I thought it would be tragedy if the operation were failed. For a poor family, it means life and death.” Fang’s father said.
Nowadays, Fang dropped out of school and stay at home. Her father does not believe learning knowledge is useful anymore. He said, “Lawsuit is not important either. Everything will be fine as long as my kid could get recovered as a normal person.” Her mother also said so.