Intensive care units in Ecuador nearly full with Covid-19 cases
Intensive care units in Ecuador nearly full with Covid-19 cases
Quito, Dec 30 (Prensa Latina) Numerous intensive care units for Covid-19 patients in Ecuador are almost full, as confirmed by the Ministry of Public Health. The situation derives from the increase in cases of respiratory disease throughout the country, whose special and intensive care units are at 95 percent capacity.
In the case of Quito, the capital, and the epicenter of the pandemic for months, there are even hospitals where there is already a waiting list for patients, such as that of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security of the South, where, according to the manager, Danilo Calderon, 15 people are waiting for a bed in intensive care.
Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and preventing the total destruction of our homeland
Published: December 16, 2020
Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the US.
Correa addresses issues ranging from the repression in his country under the watch of its outgoing neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, to the persecution of Julian Assange and the role of a CIA contractor in targeting him and the Wikileaks founder.
Blumenthal and Correa also discuss the prospect of a left-wing victory in Ecuador’s upcoming national elections, and what the US-backed government is doing to stop it.