KUALA LUMPUR: A video showing a crane lifting a woman who had just undergone a caesarean section to her family's seventh floor apartment unit in Shenyang has gone viral after delighting Chinese social media users.
The crane was hired by the woman's mother-in-law, South China Morning Post quoted Jimu News as saying.
The woman, the report said, had given birth and was discharged from hospital at the end of March, returning home to Shenyang in Liaoning province in northeastern China.
With no lift in the building, the mother-in-law, surnamed Wang, was concerned the new mother would struggle to climb the stairs so soon after surgery.
She asked her son to contact a crane company so they could use the vehicle's platform.
In a viral video uploaded by Wang on Douyin, a crane worker was seen accompanying a young woman onto the platform while the vehicle elevated them to the balcony of her home.
"I am delighted to have a grandson. My daughter-in-law is discharged from hospital and going home in a crane," Wang said in a Douyin post.
"I'd like to make my daughter-in-law happy and help her stay healthy. I plan to spoil her as much as I can.
"She has married my son and she is one of our family. If we do not take care of her, who will?" Wang said, adding that her daughter-in-law's parents live in another city.
The report quoted the owner of the crane as saying that in his 15 years in business, this was the first time he had been hired to lift someone up to their apartment.
