Summary of Help Requests During Shanghai Lockdown

At the beginning of Shanghai’s lockdown, the official Weibo platform launched a super topic called "#Shanghai Epidemic Relief Requests." Under this topic, many Shanghai residents publicly sought help regarding difficulties in daily life and medical treatment. The topic has reached 27 million views. Upon review, most of the posts are related to patients being unable to receive necessary medical care, including a significant number of cancer patients. This highlights severe difficulties in accessing medical services, and the lockdown policies have further exacerbated existing hardships, even leading to medical resource shortages.

Here are some of the help-seeking posts:

Weibo

DATE
2022/03/29
ShangHai
SUBEVENT
Mourning