A severely ill Chinese man was pushed to a local bank branch on a hospital bed by his family in order to verify his identity for a money transfer.
A video that has been circulating on Chinese social media shows a woman struggling to push a man on a hospital bed in a Shandong Province bank after being told that the only way to access his account was to confirm his identity in person.
Despite explaining to the bank manager that the account holder was hospitalized due to serious health issues, the family was informed that the only way to access their account was to bring him there personally.
The man was so unwell that he could not move by himself, but even proof of his hospitalization failed to convince the bank staff, so they had no option but to figure out a way to bring him in for identity verification.
The Shandong bank informed the family that they could bring the account holder in an ambulance, but the hospital clearly stated that their ambulances were only available for medical emergencies, and they certainly couldn’t afford a private ambulance, so the only viable solution was to simply push the hospital bed he was lying in all the way to the bank.
The ailing man’s relatives reportedly needed money to pay for his treatment, but ironically, the only way to access that money was to risk his life by removing him from the hospital.
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A young woman believed to be the elderly man’s daughter can be seen struggling to push his hospital bed all the way to a bank clerk’s counter while trying not to hit anything.
The spectacle sparked a heated online discussion, with most social media users claiming that the bank could have made an exception based on the evidence of hospitalization presented by the man’s family, and others calling it a disgrace for Chinese society that such situations can occur without any consequences.
