In connection with the incident under investigation work Baidu.
The Supervisory authorities of China conducting an investigation in respect of search service Baidu because of the death of a student who experienced the experimental method of cancer treatment, they found in the Internet.
21-year-old Wei Tsesi, who studied computer science at the University Sidani in XI’an, died in April from synovial sarcoma.
He was diagnosed with the disease in 2014, and he took an unconventional treatment in the hospital, which advertised the search engine.
Before his death, the student publicly accused Baidu of spreading false health information, the hospital is in the advertising, untrue.
On the news about the investigation, shares of Baidu, often called the Chinese Google, has fallen in price almost on 8% on the Nasdaq in new York.
As the company said in his microblog on Weibo, she filed a request to carry out investigations in relation to the hospital where he was treated vey Czasy.
“We deeply regret the death of Wei Csaci and condolences to his family,” said the BBC the company, adding that immediately began an internal investigation on the matter.
The hospital has not yet commented on the incident.
Chinese Internet regulator – the Directorate of the cyberspace to investigation into a death the student’s has teamed up with several other agencies, including the State administration for industry and Commerce, as well as
National Commission on health and family planning.
A similar scandal broke out in China in January this year. Then it was about ethical standards in the advertising of medical services: the search engine has admitted that he allowed the medical companies to moderate Internet forums about health issues.
Hashtags devoted to the investigation of the charges Wei Czasy, are already in the top popular Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo. Social network users call for boycott of search engine Baidu.
