Anhui Practitioner Qu Yanan's Experience in a Mental Hospital

My name is Qu Yanan, and I am a 46 years old woman and a doctor at Rongshida Clinic in Hefei City, Anhui province. I have practiced Falun Dafa for five years. To report the truth of Falun Dafa and appeal to the government, I have been to Beijing four times in over a year. I was sent to detention centers four times and had been detained illegally for a total of 45 days. Additionally, I was locked up in the Yicheng transformation class for 20 days. Afterwards I was forcibly sent to Hefei No. 4 People's Hospital (a mental hospital) and subjected to treatment using mentally paralyzing drugs for six months and six days. On May 16, 2000, the leaders of my company came to the transformation class where I was locked up. They told me that they were going to take me home. Who would know the car took me to the No. 4 People's Hospital (a mental hospital). I realized at once that I was deceived. I told them that one should not treat normal people as mental patients simply because one could not make them give up Dafa, it is too cruel. However the doctors neither looked at me nor examined me. They just wrote up my medical record and admitted me. As soon as I was admitted, Dr. Li and Director Xiang tried to give me intravenous drip. Since I refused, they tied me to the bed. I was stuck with needles more than ten times. They also began to inject sedative drugs into my body. They tormented me until midnight. To protest such inhuman treatment, I started a hunger strike on the second day and asked to be release. However, Dr. Li ignored my request and ordered force-feeding. The first time 7 or 8 nurses tried to insert a feeding tube into my nose. They gave up after having tried more than ten times but still could not get the tube in. The second time another group of nurses came. They force-fed me by mouth. It took them lots of efforts to finish the feeding. The nurse-in-charge complained, "You were not sick, why did they have to send normal people here! It makes us exhausted everyday." I was tied to the bed and force-fed twice everyday from the nose. My nasal cavity and esophagus were bleeding. Twice a day they gave me sedative shots. They tortured me like this for one week. When I was in the mental hospital, the first word Dr. Li said to me each day she visited the ward was, "Are you still going to practice Falun Gong? If you are, then we will continue giving you shots." After injecting me for more than ten days without any result, they changed to oral pills. They forced me to take "toxic" pills (a medicine specifically for lunatics) twice a day. One time they found me practicing and quickly tied me to the bed. Since that day they doubled my dosage. Because of long-term mental drugs injection, I became very fatigued. My movements became slow, my hands shook and my vision stagnant. I felt drowsy all day. One day I walked to the restroom a little faster, suddenly I felt dizzy and fell unconscious in the hallway. Because of the toxic effects of the drugs, my body was dropsical. Before I was locked up in the mental hospital, my waist size was 2.1 feet. When I was released, my waist size increased to 2.6 feet. Some people said I became broad-shouldered and solidly built. My whole body had deformed. Everyday I was locked up with about 40 to 50 mental patients. My body and mental health were damaged greatly. Just because I practiced Falun Dafa and spoke out about the truth of Dafa, I was persecuted with such extreme measures. The doctors knew that I have no mental disease but harmed me by forcibly injecting paralyzing drugs into my central nervous system. I wonder where the fairness of the government is and where the doctors' conscience is! I was not released home until November 22, 2000. Overall, I was locked up for six months and six days. The practitioners locked up with me in the mental hospital were: Wang Caiyun, Cao Ping, Guo Qiong, Zhu Weifu, Wu Xiaohua and Lin Guiyuan. I hope the leaders of the government and kindhearted people in the world will uphold justice and to stop these inhuman behaviors! Dafa Practitioner Qu Yanan February 1, 2001