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Manaus hospitals in Brazil can no longer care for seriously ill covid-19 patients, as the lack of oxygen now forces them to transfer 700 patients to other states. The enormous problems of the health system also led the governor of Manaus to introduce a curfew between 19 and 06.
– Health care in Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon, is collapsing as a result of a second wave of covid-19 and is about to run out of oxygen, says Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello, according to the news agency Reuters.
Several patients already have He died as a result of the shortage.
On Wednesday, Manaus registered 2,221 new patients during the first twelve days of the new year. This figure is higher than that of all those who were treated in the city’s hospitals during the month of April, says the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
The demand for oxygen is now three times higher than the supply and the demand has increased fivefold in the last 15 days. Now there are plans to bring oxygen from Venezuela, writes Folha de S. Paulo.
The shortage comes despite so much large quantities have been sent to Manaus. The state received on Monday a shipment by ship that covered 50,000 cubic meters and also 25,000 cubic meters per day from a company that only directed its production to the hospital.
Despite this, the offer has not been enough.
During the first wave in April 2020, the need did not exceed 30,000 cubic meters per day, the newspaper writes. Despite this, the city was forced to bury the dead in mass graves.
Brazil’s Special Health Minister Franco Duarte explains the need for an explosion of new cases this winter.
