Cover Story: Anti-Corruption Storm Sweeps China’s Health-Care Industry

An unprecedented anti-corruption crackdown is sweeping through China’s health-care industry, causing anxiety among hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other segments of an industry that is vital to the well-being of 1.4 billion Chinese people.

As of Aug. 9, more than 150 hospital chiefs nationwide were placed under investigation this year. That is twice the number from the previous year, based on government reports. About one-fourth of them are bosses or Communist Party heads of some of the country’s top-ranking public hospitals.