{"id":1400871,"date":"2022-03-25T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400871"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:45:24","slug":"shanghai-nurse-dies-of-asthma-attack-after-hospital-denies-care-over-virus-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shanghai-nurse-dies-of-asthma-attack-after-hospital-denies-care-over-virus-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Nurse Dies of Asthma Attack After Hospital Denies Care over Virus Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshanghai-nurse-dies-of-asthma-attack-after-hospital-denies-care-over-virus-protocol%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A nurse based in Shanghai, China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1256794.shtml\">died<\/a> on Wednesday from an asthma attack after she was denied treatment at a local hospital because the facility\u2019s\u00a0emergency room was temporarily closed in compliance with an anti-epidemic protocol designed to curb Shanghai\u2019s latest Chinese coronavirus epidemic, China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse\u2019s tragic and preventable death occurred on March 23. The newspaper detailed the incident on March 25, writing:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Zhou Shengni, a nurse who worked at the Shanghai East Hospital, who had an asthma attack at home on Wednesday, died after delayed treatment. At 7 pm Wednesday, Zhou\u2019s family members took Zhou to Shanghai East Hospital for medical treatment, but Zhou was unable to enter the hospital as the emergency department of the south division of the hospital was temporarily closed due to epidemic prevention and control measures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The emergency room in question was closed specifically for \u201cenvironmental sampling and disinfection\u201d related to the Chinese coronavirus, according to the\u00a0<em>Global Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Shanghai?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Shanghai<\/a> health authorities on Fri expressed deepest condolences to a nurse who died of asthma Wed night. The authorities urged medical institutions to meet residents&#8217; needs for first aid amid fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R7dRBub0kQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/R7dRBub0kQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1507236728608018435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s government confirmed Zhao\u2019s death due to refused medical service in a press conference Friday.\u00a0Wu Jinglei, the director of the Shanghai Health Commission, alluded to other people having been denied medical treatment in Shanghai in recent days under similar circumstances as Zhou.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20366147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/workers-protective-clothing-sit-locked-detection-of-of-covid-19-shanghai.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Workers in protective clothing sit near a locked down area after the detection of new cases of Covid-19 in Shanghai on March 14. (Hector RETAMAL AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c[S]ome residents have encountered problems trying to get medical treatment especially when it\u2019s unrelated to COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus],\u201d he acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHospitals should be able to both focus on fighting the pandemic and maintain normal hospital operations unrelated to COVID-19, particularly emergency services,\u201d Wu stated.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Wenhong, who heads a Shanghai panel overseeing the city\u2019s approach to the Chinese coronavirus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1256750.shtml\">admitted<\/a> to failures by the Shanghai government on Wednesday in its handling of the city\u2019s latest epidemic of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In a candid statement posted to his Twitter-like Weibo microblog on March 23, Zhang wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n[The] lives of people living in epidemic-restricted areas are not well guaranteed, the restriction period is too long, and frequent restrictions of hospitals cause inconvenience for other patients.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Shanghai government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/24\/chinese-experts-express-lockdown-concerns-as-coronavirus-hits-wealthy-shanghai\/\">imposed<\/a> mass lockdowns and forced quarantines on the city\u2019s populace in recent days as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/03\/21\/china-claims-coronavirus-measures-effective-as-shanghai-disney-shuts-down-again\/\">struggles<\/a> to contain Shanghai\u2019s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/chinese-city-locks-down-shanghai-shuts-schools-as-covid-spikes\/\">began<\/a> in early March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a meeting on Wednesday [March 23], Shanghai\u2019s Communist Party leaders \u2026 said more districts would be locked down for mass testing from Thursday [March 24] to Friday [March 25], including the major financial district of Lujiazui, with residents told not to leave home unless strictly necessary,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/china-reports-2054-new-covid-cases-march-23-vs-2667-day-earlier-2022-03-24\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nurse based in Shanghai, China, died on Wednesday from an asthma attack after she was denied treatment at a local hospital because the facility\u2019s\u00a0emergency room was temporarily closed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}