(Yicai Global) April 11 -- China’s online healthcare providers are giving full play to their scientific and technological advantages to help special groups get help while Shanghai is in lockdown due to Covid-19.

Some of the online medical firms told Yicai Global that their advantages in information interoperability and integrated resource can help quarantined patients with medical treatments.

Ping An Good Doctor, Alibaba Health Information Technology, Huiyi Tianxia, and others have launched online free medical consultations since March, when the recent resurgence of Covid-19 began spreading in Shanghai.

Healthcare community platform operator Haodf.Com held over 200 live streaming events covering all medical fields to help more than 130,000 people in quarantine between March 23 and 28, an executive told Yicai Global. Some 213 doctors from 23 state-owned hospitals in Shanghai took part.

More than 1,000 doctors joined Alibaba Health’s free consultation platforms and 500 other medics nationwide have offered services in the platform’s new anti-epidemic section, Yicai Global learned.

Some online providers of medical services are also working with logistics companies to help residents buy drugs and get them delivered during lockdown.

On April 7, Huiyi Tianxia launched a WeChat mini-program for emergency medicine deliveries in cooperation with online-to-offline pharmacies to get drugs to people with chronic diseases. A company official said the service offers items from 24 brick-and-mortar pharmacies, but soon the number will increase to 200.

The platform is also striving to coordinate the cooperation between stores and pharmaceutical companies to gradually reach full coverage of medicines for cardiovascular, endocrine, respiratory digestion, and nephrology chronic diseases for home use, the person added.

Shanghai No. 1 Pharmacy also has launched a similar service to help residents living in communities under lockdown to buy medicines.

“As a digital pharmaceutical firm in Shanghai, we should make full use of the advantages of online-and-offline integration and smart supply chain to help more people in need,” co-founder and Executive Chairman Yu Gang told Yicai Global.

Editor: Futura Costaglione