SAO PAULO - Hospital staff and relatives of COVID-19 patients rushed to provide facilities with oxygen tanks just flown into the Amazon rainforest's biggest
COVID-19: Oxygen shortage in Amazon city forces mass patient transfer
Doctors in Manaus, a city of 2 million people, were choosing which patients to treat, and at least one of the city s cemeteries asked mourners to line up to enter and bury their dead.
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Relatives of patients hospitalized with COVID-19, pray during a protest amid the new coronavirus pandemic outside the 28 Agosto Hospital, in Manaus, Brazil. (Photo | AP) By PTI
SAO PAULO: Dozens of COVID-19 patients in the Amazon rainforest s biggest city will be flown out of state as the local health system collapses, authorities have announced as dwindling stocks of oxygen tanks meant some people were starting to die breathless at home.
Healthcare services have 'collapsed' in the city of Manaus, where hundreds of patients are being airlifted to neighbouring states while others are evicted from their beds to make way.