Further to yesterday’s post, this report from Peru breakfast TV this morning shows the state of affairs in the jungle city of Pucallpa, Peru:
- Complete collapse of all city hospitals
- Not enough coffins for bodies, funeral parlours out of stock
- Bodies not picked up by families and abandoned in hospitals
- Deaths in the street, plus during filming of the report they tell of the 34th (and counting) coffin left outside a residential house for authorities to collect and give a respectful burial
- Bodies being embalmed in the street (no other room left)
- In hospital, zero oxygen tanks available for critical cases has caused more fatalities
- Dead bodies left beside other patients for hours on end in wards, due to lack of personnel and morgue space
Also, this report from Pucallpa yesterday evening explains how a police officer suffering from suspected Covid-19 arrived at a hospital in the back of a mototaxi (tuk-tuk) complaining of not being able to breathe. He was reportedly left outside the hospital unattended for one and a half hours, at which point he died in-situ (report has photo).