{"id":627232,"date":"2026-09-17T06:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627232\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:32:14","slug":"pop-up-ad-accused-of-delaying-life-saving-call-during-chinese-womans-heart-attack-sparks-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627232\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-up ad accused of delaying life-saving call during Chinese woman\u2019s heart attack sparks debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Intense public discussions surrounding the downsides of technology have been sparked by a Chinese man accusing a phone company\u2019s lock screen feature of obstructing his father from calling an ambulance, which he claims contributed to his mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On September 10, a 19-year-old man named Zhang shared on social media that his mother suffered a heart attack around 4am on August 30. His father attempted to dial the 120 emergency medical number, but accidentally swiped to the phone\u2019s magazine page instead of unlocking the device, rendering him unable to exit that page.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang said that his father, who suffers from long-term effects of a stroke, had to go door-to-door seeking help from neighbours. Consequently, this delay hindered his mother\u2019s rescue efforts, and she ultimately died.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to her death certificate, Zhang\u2019s mother was pronounced dead at home at 5.51am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intense public discussions surrounding the downsides of technology have been sparked by a Chinese man accusing a phone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62909,67337,165347,114,229,4596,49998,38763,3709,318,3175,61,60,266366,2105,266364,266368,2842,266367,266365,80,523,160926],"class_list":["post-627232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-advertisement","tag-ambulance","tag-cardiac","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-death","tag-debate","tag-delay","tag-heart-attack","tag-honor","tag-hospital","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magic-pictorial","tag-ministry-of-industry-and-information-technology","tag-pop-up-ad","tag-pop-up-ads","tag-shenzhen","tag-southern-metropolis-daily","tag-sun-yi","tag-technology","tag-viruses","tag-zhang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}