The health care system is buckling in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus because of the coronavirus outbreak. It could be grim glimpse of what lies ahead for Brazil as President Jair Bolsonaro encourage people to ignore stay-at-home recommendations.
In this April 16, 2020 photo, a patient suspected of suffering from COVID-19 disease. leaves the 28 de Agosto hospital after waiting hours for medical attention in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. The man left with the help of his son, after giving up on waiting for medical attention.
Manaus’ health care system, already strained before the coronavirus crisis, is buckling under the current onslaught of coronavirus patients. Ventilators are in critically short supply, doctors bemoan a lack of protective gear, and gravediggers increasingly have their hands full. Bolsonaro has repeatedly referred to COVID-19 as just a “little flu” and called for confining only “high-risk” Brazilians because broader restrictions would cause too much economic damage. On Friday, he replaced his health minister with an oncologist who has made a career on the business side of health care.
An intensive-care doctor in the midst of a 10-day shift earlier this week said he was on his own in the ICU, because three of his colleagues had been infected with the virus. Amazonas’ health secretariat told The Associated Press in an email that it has instructed “rational use” of protective equipment to avoid blowing through supply.
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