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A SIX-MONTH-old baby boy, from the poor province of Fujian, only had a common cold, but Huang Yuxiang died while on an intravenous drip at Shiqiao Hospital in Panyu, Guangzhou City, in what doctors described as an “unusual death”.

There is growing public discontent about China’s public health system, especially among the country’s legion of 130 million migrant workers who feel they are being treated as second-class citizens in the cities where they move to work.