China, hospitals under pressure: doctors and nurses forced to work even with Covid

BEIJING – He collapsed on Tuesday evening, at the end of his shift at the hospital. His classmates claim that he had worked too many hours and had Covid, but that he had been asked to stay in the ward anyway. His name was Chen, 23, a medical student employed in a Chengdu hospital, who died yesterday evening – according to the hospital statement – of a heart problem.

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