We had our baby here a couple of years back. The pre-natal checkups were a nightmare - average wait to see the doctor was over an hour, and one session, she literally spent less than 3 minutes with us (serves us right, I suppose, for having a baby in the "year of the golden pig"
My wife went into labor in the middle of the night, so we had the serious misfortune of having the graveyard shift doctors and staff to care for us. To this day, I'm convinced that their handling of the delivery (my wife had a c-section aided by forceps) was responsible for my daughter's acute torticollis - from which she has thankfully grown out of.
The after delivery care was completely old school - our baby was given to us smothered and swaddled with no instructions on what to do, much less any motions to teach my wife to breastfeed - which evidently is not common practice at Chinese hospitals.
More here: http://www.beijing-kids.com/node/5271
The only consolation was the relatively affordable price - we paid around RMB 20,000 for the entire ordeal, though I'm sure prices have risen since.
Add to this the fact that in an early pre-natal consultation (shortly after we found out we were pregnant) one of the PKMU doctors advised my wife to get an abortion simply because she had had a routine chest x-ray in the week after conception (we didn't know she was pregnant at that time), and this place gets a HUGE THUMBS DOWN AND A MIDDLE FINGER TO BOOT.
(I won't even get into the time they misdiagnosed my mom's gallstones ...)
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