One of the greatest cruelties of the coronavirus is that thousands of people worldwide have died alone. But medics in the city of Santiago have come up with an alternative.
Visitors are screened for the coronavirus and issued with the same protective equipment used by medics, before being guided into the sealed glass rooms where COVID-19 patients are housed. So far, the hospital’s ICU has avoided any cases of contagion among its staff.
Latin America is now the epicenter of the pandemic and Chile is one of its hardest-hit nations, with cases leaping by several thousands daily and confirmed deaths nearing 5,000. Despite converting wards and bolstering critical care beds from 50 to 140 since the virus hit in March, the hospital’s doctors warn that if patient numbers continue to climb, they will have no capacity to treat them.
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