Brazil's Amazonas state runs out of oxygen supply amid surge in COVID-19 cases

Healthcare system in Brazil's largest state, Amazonas collapsed on January 14 after hospitals’ oxygen supplies ran ‘critically’ short, posing threat to lives of COVID-19 patients. Many incoming patients were devoid of hospital beds as y were rushed to medical centers in ambulances. Brazilian Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said during a Facebook live with President Jair Bolsonaro that healthcare system in country h “collapsed” as Brazil’s largest states pleed for help with an alarming onslaught of Covid deaths and infections. 

According to sources of AP, intensive care units in public Oceanico hospital in Brazilian city of Niteroi witnessed a ‘tsunami’ of COVID-19 patients, and number of medics was short to attend wave of coronavirus patients. A team of ground reporters from Associated Press that visited intensive care ward called situation worrying as all beds at one of many hospitals y visited were full. Most  ICU patients were put on ventilators or intubated t ogive supplemental oxygen which h depleted in supply. In Rio de Janeiro city, public health network’s occupancy rate shot up of 93 percent in intensive care beds (ICU). In Curitiba,  occupancy reached 93 percent, as well. 

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Patients dying due to 'suffocation'

"I would say yes, re is a collapse in healthcare in Manaus. line to get a hospital bed has grown a lot, today we have about 480 people waiting in line. And reality is that re is a lower supply of oxygen—t an interruption, but a lower supply of oxygen,” Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello in his facebook dress, describing situation in Brazil as grim.

On Thursday, government was forced to airlift COVID-19 patients to or Brazilian states with beds as surge pushed healthcare to brink of its capacity. With world’s second-largest COVID-19 death toll, Brazilian states of Amazonas reported that coronavirus patients across Brazil were dying due to a short of oxygen and suffocation. country is awaiting a United States transport plane that is expected to send help with oxygen cylinders. 

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