An unknown woman from Shanghai, China, had her eyelid surgery stitches removed at the gate of her residential complex.
A Shanghai woman who underwent a double eyelid procedure had to get her sutures removed at the gate of her residential complex after it was placed under Covid-19 lockdown.
Amid a widescale COVID surge in some local cases, restrictions have been implemented in Shanghai. That is why Doctor Zhou Zhaoping has been forced to perform a procedure in a different way as the said building was under a COVID lockdown.
A video of the unknown woman who’s undergoing the procedure has been viral on Chinese social media sites with the hashtag “doctor removes double eyelid stitches through the fence”. The said video receives more than 140 million views on China’s Twitter platform.
Dr. Zhaoping, who attended to the woman told Shanghai-based news outlet papers that he had no choice but to do the procedure in such a fashion. He explained: “The stitches will be very hard to remove if we leave them for too long and the worse part is it could also cause scarring.”
The source said the woman’s cosmetic surgery was performed in mid-March, and she had stitches removed last Saturday. She had undergone a double-eyelid surgery, which creates a crease in the eyelids to make them larger than before.
Dr. Zhaoping initially sent a box of surgical tools to the woman so that she could get a neighbor to remove the stitches for her, however, she could not find any help so he decided to head down to do it himself.
The doctor told the outlet: “It wasn’t easy to do it while standing because my hands would shake, so I asked her to keep her chin on the gate to stay still.
The security guard at the gate was watching us, but we both have negative COVID tests, and we both wore masks, so I figured the risk (of transmitting the virus) was low”.
Shanghai, a financial hub with 26 million residents, has been split in two following a mass COVID-19 lockdown of the city that was implemented this week.
Those living east of the Huangpu River have been barred from leaving their homes, while a five-day lockdown for those living west of the river will begin on Friday.
Before the regulations, pockets of the city including residential complexes had already been placed under lockdown. The city recorded 4,381 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and 96 symptomatic cases on Monday.
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