The world’s worst coronavirus case has been ensuing in South America, most notably in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The tragedy of this nation lies in the fact that it neither has the necessary medical supplies and personnel to prevent a further spread of the virus, but absolutely no system to control the post-mortem corpses after death. Flavio Ramos was one of the victims of the pandemic, as he came into the local hospital barely alive. When he and his son came in, his son Arturo had to notice two corpses lying on the floor, with no one actually having the care nor the power to treat them to a proper procedure. Flavio Ramos joined the ranks of these unattended cadavers the next day. Then, the hospital lost his body in the process.
“We need a place to say, on Sunday let’s go to put flowers on the tomb of my father,” his son said. “There is nothing, there is nothing you can do.”
This is a scene that have become a reality in this South American nation, with the city being the second largest metropolitan area in the nation, size of the city of Chicago. The public health system of Ecuador fell helplessly under attack. The city is now spinning off videos after videos of dead corpses left to rot on sidestreets as all funeral facilities have been operating beyond capacity.
The corpses were laid to decay since they had no choice but to do so to avoid the infection, and that the stench coming off from them was indescribably bad.
“Hospitals completely overwhelmed by a pandemic that descended rapidly on an unprepared healthcare system, leaving no chance to truly help people, let alone provide patients with basic levels of care.
People were terrified and scared,” said one doctor working in the city.. “Really sick people were coming to the hospital, dying. You tended to one, did what you could do, then that person dies, and you move to the next, and that person dies, and on and on like that.
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“At one point there were dozens of bodies between the hospital rooms and morgue that were waiting to be taken away,” said the doctor.
“There were no body bags left.”
The rate of death far outpaced the capacity of city morgues and funeral homes. A second doctor told CNN that he usually saw three or four dead bodies lying on the floor each day at the hospital. “We had nowhere else to put them,” he said.
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