Brazil’s hospitals were running out of drugs needed to sedate Covid-19 patients yesterday, with the government urgently seeking to import supplies amid reports of the seriously ill being tied down and intubated without effective sedatives. Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said Brazil was in talks with Spain and other countries to secure the emergency drugs. Hospitals, he added, were also struggling to get enough oxygen.
The scenes playing out across Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by the COovid-19 pandemic, are placing growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazil has recorded a total of 361,884 coronavirus deaths ― only the United States has more ― and 13,673,507 confirmed cases.
More Brazilians are currently dying of the virus each day than anywhere else in the world, with South America’s largest country reporting another 3,560 deaths on Thursday. Bolsonaro has opposed lockdowns and held large events in which he often does not wear a mask. He has only recently embraced vaccines as a possible solution.
Brazil’s hospitals are struggling to cope. Globo television network on Wednesday reported cases from a Rio hospital in which patients were intubated with a lack of sedatives, tied to beds.
The Albert Schweitzer hospital, through the press office of the city of Rio which runs it, said there was a shortage of intubation drugs but that substitutes were being used to ensure medical assistance was not compromised. It said mechanical restraints were only used when prescribed by a doctor.
The city of Rio added that a batch of intubation drugs was set to arrive on Thursday. Sao Paulo blamed the shortage on the federal government. The irresponsibility and neglect of Brazilian lives is unbelievable,” Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria said on Twitter.
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have both sounded the alarm over shortages of sedatives, with Sao Paulo’s Health Secretary saying the city’s ability to care for seriously ill Covid-19 patients is on the verge of collapse. I never thought that I would be living through something like this after 20 years working in intensive care,” Aureo do Carmo Filho, an ICU doctor in Rio, told Reuters.
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