「ここは生き地獄だ」 中国の精神病院が健常者を監禁する闇のビジネス

Recently multiple psychiatric hospitals in various cities and counties across Hubei Province have been involved in Regardless of whether they are public or private shocking instances of misconduct have been exposed by the media sending shockwaves through society In December 2025 a journalist from the Neurological Law Bureau conducted an undercover investigation and discovered that these medical institutions were illegally obtaining funds from the medical insurance fund It was revealed that a person had lured and recruited healthy individuals impersonating psychiatric patients to gain hospital admission As a result of the pursuit of profit hospitals—originally meant to save lives—have deteriorated into tools of exploitation under a market-driven system and patient rooms have become prisons that restrict personal freedom The reporter posed as a job applicant for caregiving positions and infiltrated the Hubei Province Changyong City Public Security Psychiatric Hospital and the Guizhou City Medical Geriatric Psychiatric Hospital What met my eyes was the peculiar sight of numerous hospitalized patients showing no signs of mental disturbance Inside not only elderly patients seeking care in their later years but even hospital caregivers and security staff had undergone admission procedures being falsely labeled as psychiatric patients on paper To smoothly accommodate these cases doctors even actively suggested fabricating symptoms of mental illness Moreover the documents allege that hospitals systematically temporarily discharged these fake patients on a regular basis to evade scrutiny during medical insurance audits carrying out a cover-up operation designed to deceive auditors People arbitrarily labeled as mentally ill become lucrative money-makers for hospitals the moment they're admitted Nearly all of the more than ten psychiatric hospitals that reporters investigated using the regular newspaper had promised to waive inpatient fees Moreover some institutions required only a minimal living expense payment with certain places even waiving daily food costs of around 300 yen The only condition is that you must stay hospitalized for a long time The hospital was illegally claiming funds from the national healthcare insurance pool by misusing patient information to fraudulently bill for expensive treatments such as psychotherapy and behavioral therapy For instance in the case of a patient under the regular supervision of the Public Security Agency hospitalization costs over a 90-day period had reached approximately 2.7 million yen or more The actual cost of the prescribed medication was only about 11 000 yen while the remaining 135 000 yen or more was fictitious fabricated treatment fees with no real basis The hospital system has developed a rigid profit chain driven by a distorted structure in which greater patient volume directly translates to higher profits According to medical staff referees can receive rebates of approximately 9 000 to 23 000 yen for each new patient they refer To ensure a steady stream of profits hospitals not only devised clever ways to attract patients but also obstructed their discharge through every possible means Many patients are either already recovering or were never ill to begin with yet they are being forced to stay for extended periods Some had been confined for as long as eight or nine years their release a dream that would never come true Even more shocking is the actual state of hospital management inside The medical staff did not intend to use violence to control patients they had forcibly detained The reporter witnessed multiple instances in which patients were subjected to abuse including being slapped kicked and even whipped with a hose At the Rikusho City Medical Geriatric Psychiatric Hospital noncompliant patients are tied to their beds immobilized with the longest recorded instance lasting a full three days A patient who has been hospitalized for five years insists that life here is no different from prison offering not a single shred of dignity Tragically even suicides among patients occurred under such desperate circumstances Although the hospital has remained silent word had already spread among patients that the individual had taken their own life after enduring what amounted torture On the day the incident unfolded deeper underlying issues behind this tragedy also came to light In addition to medical insurance fraud numerous domestic and international media outlets and online users have pointed out that many psychiatric hospitals in China actually serve as tools for maintaining social order under government authority Many human rights activists believers and dissidents despite being in good health are forcibly detained and subjected to prolonged restrictions on physical freedom and human rights abuses Inert media remain deeply silent on this issue but public opinion in civil society is already boiling over On February 4 2026 a joint inspection team comprising departments including Hubei Province's Standing Committee for Supervision Observational Committee Health and Wellness Commission Public Security Department and Medical Security Bureau arrived on-site But the public's anger is not satisfied with that alone Online doubts about Director Fuyuki Todoki have flooded the internet with net users accusing him of everything from forging medical records to brazen insurance fraud and even falsely labeling healthy individuals as mentally ill These tactics could never have persisted for so long without the tacit approval or negligence of the supervisory authorities Another critic harshly condemns such actions—transforming hospitals into prisons and treating living people as commodities—as effectively turning society itself into a vast living hell Thank you for watching today