New Law: Help Injured People in China Without Being Blackmailed!

China Implements "Good Samaritan" Law

Finally you can help injured people in China without having to fear the consequences!

Xinhua News just announced the new law went into effect on Oct 1 to protect people who are ready to help others.

Helping injured people was dangerous in the past as you risked to be blackmailed by the people you helped.

In 2011, a two-year-old girl was run over by two cars, and 18 passersby did not offer emergency help. The girl died later after days of medical treatment.

In 2014, a man from south China's Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen but was accused of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when faced with demands for compensation.

Under the new legislation, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill, in danger, or otherwise incapacitated, will not have civil liability in the event of harm to the victims.

It aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal repercussions if they make mistakes in treatment.

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Good Samaritans will even have preferences to enter China's elite Universities like Tsinghua and Peking University. (Source: Xinhua- See original by clicking "阅读原文"at the end of the article)

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