BEIJING - Shanghai residents have turned online for grassroots help on medical treatment as the city's tough Covid-19 curbs limit access to healthcare and fuel frustration and anxiety.
"Typically, replacing the catheter would take 10 minutes, but the nearby hospital that we usually go to is now sealed up," said the woman, who wanted to be identified by her surname Zhou. It is also tough to find accurate information on the services each hospital offers, others told Reuters. While China, ruled by the Communist Party, has an uneasy relationship with civil society groups working outside official channels, authorities do not appear to have interfered with efforts to help with health care access in the Shanghai outbreak.