Jiang Yanyong accused the government of deliberately underreporting the spread of the respiratory disease in an open letter sent to state media in 2003. The disease killed nearly 800 people worldwide.
News of his death was not reported in Chinese state media, as is the norm with politically sensitive public figures.
Two other family friends of Jiang, Bao Pu and Bao Jian, posted on Twitter about his passing earlier this week. Neither immediately replied to a request for comment from Reuters. Some media including the South China Morning Post said he died on Saturday, March 11, of pneumonia, citing sources. Reuters could not immediately confirm this.
Born into a wealthy banking family and a longtime member of China’s ruling Communist Party, Jiang served as a chief surgeon at a major military hospital in Beijing.
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