Editor's Note:
Sick children and their parents crowded into the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. Patients had to be placed on a waiting list of more than 200 names ahead, with each child waiting an average of two hours according to the Global Times reporter. Photos: Li Hao/GT
A woman holds her sick child undergoing infusion treatment in the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
A woman holds her sick child undergoing infusion treatment in the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
Sick children and their parents crowd into the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
A child receives treatment in Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
A man holds his sick child in the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
Nurses treat a sick child in the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
Sick children wearing masks play on the kiddie rides in Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
A child patient with a mask peers out from behind a door in Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert. 
Sick children and their parents crowd into the infusion center of Beijing Children’s Hospital on December 21, 2016, five days after Beijing issued an air pollution red alert.
