The dying rooms: Chinese orphanages adopt a 'zero population growth policy'
The medical histories of the dead children of the Shanghai Children's
Welfare Institute, China's showcase orphanage, read like macabre
experiments in human starvation: Ke Yue, a girl, was admitted to the orphanage in November 1989, the
month of her birth. Two and a half years later, on 9 June 1992,
orphanage doctors recorded that she had developed “third-degree
malnutrition,” was “breathing in shallow gasps.” On 10 June, she was
admitted to the Medical Ward, where she died later the same day. Two
separate causes of death were diagnosed by her physician, Wu Junfeng:
“severe malnutrition” and “congenital maldevelopment of brain.”
