New | ‘I hate them for killing my baby’: Mum stabbed in Kunming faces reality of having to abort her child
At hospitals across Kunming, victims and their families tell of their ordeal
When Tang Xiaoquan, 23, entered the Kunming railway station on March 1, she was a happy mother-to-be, likely eager to show her sixth-month baby bump to a friend she was picking up that day.
Now, after the brutal knife attack left her grievously injured, she is reduced to a petite body beneath a tangle of medical tubes and IV drips, confronting the painful reality that she will have to give up her first child.
The medicines being pumped into her veins, while helping her recover from the stabbing that punctured her liver, are at the same time harmful to her child, according to doctors at the Third People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province.
Speaking in a weak whisper, her lips dry, Tang says she spent the past 72 hours alone, fighting for her life, after one of the assailants plunged a knife in her.
“I was stabbed on the right side of my back,” she said. “The doctor told me my liver was punctured. I was rushed to the hospital and the doctor sewed my liver up.
I was only sitting there, waiting for my friend. Suddenly I was stabbed in the back but I didn’t feel anything except shock
“I was only sitting there, waiting for my friend. Suddenly I was stabbed in the back but I didn’t feel anything except shock.
