Local government of Hohhot, north China’s Inner Mongolia held a press conference recently to update the public about the investigation on a horrific footage in which doctors beat a female patient on operating table.

The footage was confirmed to be taken in “Dushi liren” (“city beauty”) Hospital, which has now been halted. The doctor in the video surnamed Zhao has resigned and cannot be reached currently. Zhao is suspected of using forged medical licenses to practice medicine.

The investigation has triggered a citywide rectification in privately operated hospitals. 350 hospitals have been probed, 139 of which have been ordered to rectify, 3 halted, and 7 banned.

The said video has recently gone viral on China’s social media. In the video, a woman seemed to lie on the operation table of gynaecology department. She and her two doctors got involved in an argument during the operation. A female doctor smashed the patient’s head with an infusion bag. After the patient lay back in fatigue, the doctor slapped her face continually and shoved her legs.