As Wuhan´s desperate and sick beg for help, China shuts them down | Anonymous
(The Guardian China)

Doctors are told not to cause alarm over coronavirus, social media posts are deleted and vital information is dismissed as rumouro The author is a Chinese writer living in north AmericaI got a phone call from Dr Song* one night. He had just finished a shift at a hospital in Wuhan and was about to go back to work again. He told me it had been weeks since he had had a full night of sleep or a day off. He couldn´t remember the last time he had spent time with his family or eaten a warm meal. At work, he wraps himself in raincoats due to a lack of protective gear across the hospital. Some of his colleagues wear diapers to work to avoid having to remove their protective suits.`Maybe you can write something to let the patients know we have all tried our best,` he said. Just a few hours before, when a patient had died at a Wuhan hospital, family members had beaten up and severely injured two doctors. Even though he and his coworkers were working non-stop - overwhelmed, under-equipped and exhausted - they still faced a backlash from patients, many of whom he had to reject due to the lack of hospital beds. Some left disappointedly. Others abused him.Even now, when the virus has taken more than 1,700 lives, the government is still trying to hide information Related: The coronavirus outbreak has only heightened Hong Kong´s hostility towards Beijing | Ilaria Maria Sala Continue reading...