Psych Ward Seeks Patients’ Families in Time for Lunar New Year | The Paper
Chen Ronghui—The Paper
Lunar New Year is a time to spend with family, but in the Eighth People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, in Henan province, many of the mental health patients do not know who their families are. Photographer Chen Ronghui visited the hospital and writes, “With the hospital’s permission, I visited the welfare ward in December 2016 to take portraits of some of its residents so they might be identified by their estranged families.” Posted with the person’s identifying number, the only way the patients are known in the hospital, Liu Lanzhi, patient #78, was identified and reconnected with her family.
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Lunar New Year is a time to spend with family, but in the Eighth People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, in Henan province, many of the mental health patients do not know who their families are. Photographer Chen Ronghui visited the hospital and writes, “With the hospital’s permission, I visited the welfare ward in December 2016 to take portraits of some of its residents so they might be identified by their estranged families.” Posted with the person’s identifying number, the only way the patients are known in the hospital, Liu Lanzhi, patient #78, was identified and reconnected with her family.