11 Chinese sales staff hospitalised on gruelling boot camp after urine turns brown
Almost a dozen employees from a sales firm taken to hospital and some require kidney treatment during physical training that included carrying heavy logs
A third of the staff at a sales company in eastern China who took part in a training “boot camp” last week ended up in hospital after their urine turned brown, according to a local newspaper report.
Eleven out of 38 staff from the firm in Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, had to be hospitalised during the four-day “development training” trip last Tuesday to Friday, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Monday.
There were still eight employees in Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Sunday evening, it reported.
One of the employees, surnamed Song, told the newspaper the sales company – which was not named but based in Xiasha district – sent new staff for “pre-employment development training”, arranged by an unnamed training organisation.
The second day of the training was more strenuous than the first, and involved teams of staff carrying logs, according to the report.
