‘We’ve cried ourselves dry’: COVID overwhelms Manila hospitals
Al Jazeera
Faced with an alarming wave of cases, medical staff have the grim job of deciding life and death for desperate patients.
Manila, Philippines – For Gio Pineda, a young doctor in the Philippines capital of Manila, the past few days have been among the most harrowing of his life. Pineda has been manning the triage section of his hospital’s COVID-19 emergency unit. With the more than 40 beds occupied by patients in critical condition, and the hallway lined with more patients in wheelchairs, Pineda had to decide who would get treatment and who would not.
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