What’s new: The president of Shanghai’s Tongji Hospital has been placed under a graft investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law,” the local graft buster announced Monday without elaboration.
The investigation into Cheng Yingsheng came less than three years after the 58-year-old medical imaging expert became the president of the top hospital affiliated with Tongji University in November 2021.
What’s more: Cheng is the latest top hospital chief in China to get investigated for graft amid the country’s sweeping crackdown on corruption in the medical sector.
Since last year, more than 100 Chinese hospital executives have come under investigation for graft. In March, former Beijing Jishuitan Hospital President Tian Wei was caught in one such probe. Tian was also a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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