A television journalist from Liaoning province has received an apology and an offer of compensation from an emergency medical center in Beijing that he says delayed treatment when he was critically ill.

The journalist, Zhang Yang, said on his Sina Weibo account that doctors from the 999 Emergency Rescue Center, administered by Beijing Red Cross Society, gave him excessive checkups while he was in pain.

They initially refused to send him to a good hospital despite being unable to provide him proper treatment.