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Argentina ICU staff bracing for next wave of Covid-19 admissions – Yahoo News Australia
At an ICU unit in a low-income Buenos Aires suburb, exhausted staff are bracing for a new wave of coronavirus admissions.
At an ICU unit in a low-income Buenos Aires suburb, exhausted staff are bracing for a new wave of coronavirus admissions.
“We have not stopped since March (last year),” said ICU head Nestor Pistillo of the El Cruce Nestor Carlos Kirchner public hospital.
“Now we are seeing a resurgence and a growing demand for beds, increasingly for young people,” he told AFP.
The hospital has 44 intensive care beds. All are occupied — 24 by coronavirus patients.
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