‘Catastrophically short of doctors’: Virus wallops Ukraine – Devdiscourse

Coronavirus infections in Ukraine began surging in late summer, and the ripples are now hitting towns like Stebnyk in the western part of the country, where Dr Natalia Stetsik is watching the rising number of patients with alarm and anguish. It’s incredibly difficult. We are catastrophically short of doctors, says Stetsik, the chief doctor at the only hospital in the town of 20,000 people. It’s very hard for a doctor to even see all the patients. The hospital is supposed to accommodate 100 patie…

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