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.point 143 | The public health system of Ecuador fell helplessly under attack.point 199 | 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.point 328 |
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.point 127 | 1
“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.point 419 |
People were terrified and scared,” said one doctor working in the city.point 66 | . “Really sick people were coming to the hospital, dying.point 120 | 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.point 229 |
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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.point 259 |
“There were no body bags left.point 31 | ”
The rate of death far outpaced the capacity of city morgues and funeral homes.point 103 | A second doctor told CNN that he usually saw three or four dead bodies lying on the floor each day at the hospital.point 196 | “We had nowhere else to put them,” he said.point 243 | 1
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