On the evening of December 26, 2022, a man hurriedly ran in the inpatient ward of a township health center in Qichun County: "Doctor, my father-in-law has fallen from the building, save him!."”
The old man who fell from the building was Yu.
He was 61 years old at the time of the incident.
Due to respiratory diseases.
December 25, 2022.
Admitted to a township health center**.
His son-in-law came to visit him the next evening.
But I found it by accident.
Yu was covered in blood
Lie on the concrete floor on the first floor
The medical staff immediately carried out rescue measures such as bandaging and intravenous infusion on Yu, and dialed 120 to send him to the county hospital**Later, Yu died that night.
Surveillance footage extracted by the public security organs shows
The location of the incident is the glass window in the west corridor on the second floor of the inpatient department of the township health center, which is clearly shown in **Yu leaned his body out of the window one after another, and at the same time left the ground with his feet so that his upper body completely poked out of the window, and rushed to the window with his accelerated pace after retreating against the wall. Later, the local police station issued a police certificate to rule out homicide.
The focus of the controversy
Yu's family thinks
There were potential safety hazards in the hospital's public construction facilities, and the hospital failed to fulfill its safety guarantee obligations to cause Yu's unfortunate death, so he sued the court to demand that the hospital compensate for the losses caused by Yu's death totaling more than 330,000 yuan.
The hospital thinks
Yu committed suicide by jumping off the building, the hospital was not at fault, and the hospital windows and window sill facilities met the standards stipulated by the state, and corresponding rescue measures were taken in a timely manner, and the hospital was deeply sympathetic to the tragedy, but there was no fault in law, so there was no need to bear the liability for compensation.
The court held after trial
From the point of view of the obligation of security guarantees
The medical institution involved in the case is a comprehensive township health center, and its hardware protection facilities meet industry standards and match its risk prevention capabilities
From the point of view of cause and effect
As a person with full capacity for civil conduct, Yu was conscious at the time of the incident and was aware of the consequences of his actions, and his subjective motivation for pursuing death was the root cause of the death, and there was no causal relationship between the health center's diagnosis and treatment and nursing behavior and the outcome of his death. 
Therefore, the court dismissed all the plaintiff's claims. After the verdict of the case, neither party appealed. Afterwards, the two sides settled on their own.
When the actor actively pursues the outcome of death, it shall ascertain whether there is a causal relationship between the outcome of death and the hospital's conduct, rationally examine the degree of responsibility and fault of all parties, and determine the allocation of responsibility accordingly. Otherwise, on the one hand, it is not conducive to restoring objective facts, and on the other hand, it will lead to medical institutions being "timid" due to improper claims in future medical behavior and daily management. The judgment in this case adheres to the correct principle of bearing legal responsibility, safeguards the public interest, embodies the connotation and essence of the core values of socialism, and establishes a clear adjudication orientation for promoting a harmonious doctor-patient relationship.
Authors: Song Weidong and Xu Lange of Qichun County Court.
Editor: Zhang Sijie.
Editor-in-charge: Lu Ming.
Review: Deng Zhaoling.