155 cases of violent assaults on medical workers have been settled in 2014, and among the 26,962 medical related disputes accepted last year, 23,001 cases were settled.
This was disclosed by China's Supreme People's Court at a news briefing on May 26, 2015.
The crime of violent assaulting medical workers will be strictly punished according to law, said Ma Yan, the vice-president of the 5th criminal tribunal, adding the authority will severely punish those who seriously harm or even kill doctors over groundless assumptions.
According to Ma, last year, a total of 7.6 billion treatments were performed in hospitals nationwide, which is 300 million more than that in 2013. The doctor-patient relation was improved and the number of medical dispute related cases declined by 8.7 percent.
The court also highlighted four typical cases of assaulting medical workers, including one man named Lian Enqing from east China's Zhejiang province stabbed a doctor to death just because he was dissatisfied with his nose treatment.
The man was executed on May 25.
