China’s extreme zero-COVID policy and stringent lockdowns have caused suffering, especially among many medical and health professionals such as Yu Mingzhu (using an alias for safety) who is also the mother of two young children. Yu is trained as a traditional Chinese medicine doctor and she works at a community health center in Shenyang City in northeastern Liaoning Province. There, she and her colleagues work long hours with few breaks while not being paid for any overtime work. “Private companies usually pay employees overtime three times their regular salaries, that is working on holidays and weekends, but we don’t get any overtime payment,” Yu told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times on Jan. 16. “The only thing we get is some allowance for giving people COVID-19 jabs,” Yu said, adding that the management of the health center in Dadong District that she worked at did not treat staff humanely. At the …