Pictures of physique baggage piled beside residing hospital sufferers have despatched shockwaves the world over.
Hong Kong is battling with an enormous Covid outbreak, with medical employees struggling to deal with rising numbers of circumstances.
Photographs of six our bodies on stretchers on the overwhelmed Queen Elizabeth Hospital had been shared on social media at present. It's thought that the photograph was taken in early March.
Sufferers have reportedly been left ready outdoors for hours as employees work to seek out area to deal with them.
Sara Ho, chief supervisor of the Hospital Authority, instructed the Hong Kong Free Press the ‘physique bag’ scenario had since been resolved.
Explaining that ‘generally our bodies can't be transferred to the mortuary in time’, she stated: ‘We hope everybody may very well be understanding [about how] public hospitals have executed their finest to make use of extra manpower to deal with this case. We're very sorry for inflicting discomfort to sufferers.’
Refrigerated containers have additionally been introduced into hospitals to alleviate overburdened mortuaries.
Hong Kong had managed to maintain Covid circumstances low till this yr, when the extremely transmissible Omicron variant took maintain.
Solely round 53% of individuals over the age of 80 had been vaccinated, resulting in excessive numbers of hospital admissions. Many aged folks had fears over negative effects from the vaccine.
The Omicron variant went on to cripple hospitals and shut down companies all through the town.
In January, 2,000 hamsters from pet outlets had been ordered to be ‘disposed of’ after an outbreak was linked to 1 the place 11 pet rodents examined constructive.
Now, Hong Kong is reporting the very best Covid dying fee on this planet.
Town reported 29,381 Covid-19 infections at present and, as of yesterday, there was 3,150 deaths brought on by the pandemic.
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