Chinese woman has sutures from double eyelid surgery removed at community gate during Covid-19 lockdown
- A woman who had undergone double eyelid surgery and was waiting to have the sutures removed found herself unexpectedly under Covid-19 lockdown
- She eventually was able to get them taken out by a doctor at the gate of her residential community in Shanghai
The woman, whose name was not released, had the procedure in the middle of March at a cosmetic medical institute, news portal D-video reported.
Shanghai reported 50 coronavirus patients and 3,450 asymptomatic cases on Sunday. A total of 14,376 local asymptomatic cases are still under medical observation, according to the municipal health authority.
When the time came to remove the woman’s sutures last week, her residential block had been put under lockdown as authorities tried to curb the spread of coronavirus in the city.
She became anxious two days later when the official in charge of her community told her the lockdown order could not be lifted yet.
“I am not allowed to leave my residential block. Do you think I can postpone the time to remove the sutures? I feel they have been embedded in my flesh,” she asked her doctor.
The doctor, surnamed Zhou, said the sutures had to be removed urgently. The doctor first suggested sending her a surgical blade and tweezers and asked her to find someone in her community to remove the sutures for her.
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