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A video of an elderly person infected with Corona 19 being kicked by an employee at a public hospital in Shanghai, China, has sparked public outrage.
In a statement posted on its website on the 5th, the Sanitation Committee of Huangpu District of Shanghai City said that a video of a hospital employee assaulting an elderly patient, which had recently been spread on the Internet, was confirmed to have been filmed in an inpatient room at a public hospital in the city. I did.
Recently, a video of an 87-year-old patient being assaulted at a hospital via WeChat messenger has spread rapidly among Shanghai citizens.
In the video, an employee in a protective suit continues to kick an old man sitting on the floor of the hospital room.
The old man's grandson said that the video was filmed on the 27th of last month on Weibo, a Chinese social media site, and that his grandfather, who was recently infected with Corona 19, died on the 2nd.
Shanghai citizens who saw the video were astonished.
A resident of Shanghai's Changning District lamented that "the hospital is turning into hell" while just sharing the video on the residents' WeChat group chat room.
As the medical system is paralyzed due to the explosion of COVID-19 infections, chaos continues in Shanghai's front-line medical field.
Recently, a senior welfare facility in Shanghai's Putuo District caused a serious accident when a living elderly person was found alive while trying to transport the deceased in a burial bag.
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Chinese authorities, adhering to the 'zero corona' policy, are pouring medical resources into large-scale testing and isolation of infected people for COVID-19.
Meanwhile, there are also signs of a deterioration in the mental health of Shanghai residents, exhausted from the prolonged lockdown.
According to search engine Baidu, the number of searches for words related to psychological issues such as 'psychological counseling' by Shanghai citizens in the past 30 days has increased by more than 250% compared to the same period last year.
(Photo=Capture of WeChat channel video for Urban Improvement in China, Yonhap News)