Hospitals and doctors are overwhelmed. So are funeral homes and cemeteries. 'You feel powerless,' said one doctor tending to 200 patients.
Enrique Ortiz/AFP via Getty ImagesPatients are treated for COVID-19 at a field hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador.Ecuador has one of the highest rates of COVID-19 in all of Latin America – with 10,128 cases and 507 deaths in a country of just 17 million people.
that in the first 15 days of April, 6,703 people had died from either COVID-19 or natural causes. Previous to the coronavirus outbreak, he said, the monthly figure was around 1,000.And Interior Minster María Paula Romo has admitted that the true death count is higher but blamed a lack of widespread testing for the discrepancy. Even President Lenín Moreno has dismissed the official figures.
Dr. Eduardo Herdocia, who is just 18 months out of medical school, says he is currently taking care of about 200 patients whom he believes are infected with coronavirus, based on their respiratory symptoms. But due to lack of testing, only about two dozen have been diagnosed as positive. Because Guayaquil's hospitals are overflowing with confirmed CV patients, Herdocia makes house calls.
"It's very hard to tell them to stay home," said Dayanna Monroy, a TV journalist in Guayaquil, who says many parts of the city bustle with people and traffic.Due to bottlenecks in collecting the dead, people were wrapping the bodies of deceased relatives in plastic and bed sheets and, in some cases, moving them outside when the bodies began to stink in Guayaquil's very hot climate. So the bodies lay on the streets for days.
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