Shanghai tells city hospitals to reopen emergency wards after Covid-19 lockdowns see patients turned away


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Shanghai public health authorities have told all hospitals and clinics across the city to reopen emergency wards after reports that people were being denied access to treatment during the citywide coronavirus lockdown. The order followed after several incidents that have provoked widespread anger amid tightened virus controls that have almost exhausted medical resources in China’s commercial and financial capital. People in Shanghai ‘take matters into their own hands’ to survive Covid lockdown “All hospitals and clinics across the city have been required to reopen their emergency wards to citizens,” Wu Qianyu, a senior official with the Shanghai health commission, said...