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Covid patients asphyxiate as Latin America battles oxygen shortage

As a second, deadly wave of Covid-19 batters Latin America, images have emerged from country after country of desperate people lining up for days to buy oxygen to ease the suffering of infected loved ones fighting for breath. As demand soars, prices have skyrocketed and families have had to scrape together their last cents to pay for supplies of the essential gas. On January 14 alone, a researcher estimates more than 100 people died of asphyxiation at hospitals in Brazil’s northern Amazonas state. One of them, according to his widow, was Henrique Marques, 52, who ran out of breath in a hospital in Manaus.

Patients asphyxiate as Latin America battles Covid-19 oxygen crisis

MONTEVIDEO (AFP) - As a second, deadly wave of Covid-19 batters Latin America, images have emerged from country after country of desperate people lining up for days to buy oxygen to ease the suffering of infected loved ones fighting for breath. As demand soars, prices have skyrocketed and families have had to scrape together their last cents to pay for supplies of the essential gas. On Jan 14 alone, a researcher estimates more than 100 people died of asphyxiation at hospitals in Brazil s northern Amazonas state. One of them, according to his widow, was Henrique Marques, 52, who ran out of breath in a hospital in Manaus.

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