On the opening night of the holiday, one Beijing hospital treated 85 people with firecracker-related injuries, the majority of them involving eyes.

Zhao died on 17 January in a Beijing hospital at 07:01, at the age of 85.

Mr. Zhao was treated in a Beijing hospital and returned home when his condition stabilized, those people said.

Three Beijing hospitals reported receiving at least 68 corpses of civilians and said many others had not been picked up from the scene.

Beijing hospitals plan to encourage surgery patients to donate blood in advance.

"Medical textbooks have never recorded such a high complication rate for this surgery," said Dr. Li, the vice president of the Beijing hospital.

Many surgeons at the Beijing hospital felt that Operation Smile had failed to deliver on its promises.

He died of liver cancer in a Beijing hospital on August 3, 1992.

She hanged herself in a Beijing hospital in 1991 while undergoing treatment for throat cancer.

On October 19, 2001, Li Delun died at age 84 in a Beijing hospital, after having lived a full and meaningful life dedicated to music.