Philippines: Relatives care for loved ones with COVID-19 in overcrowded Manila hospital

Tents were turned into coronavirus emergency rooms in a bid to admit more patients

Published: April 27, 2021 08:41 Reuters

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A health worker tends to a COVID-19 patient supported by a mechanical ventilator and undergoing dialysis at the COVID-19 emergency room of the government hospital National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City, which has declared overcapacity amid rising numbers of COVID-19 infections. Image Credit: Reuters

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Patients are watched over by relatives and hospital aides inside the COVID-19 emergency room of the government hospital National Kidney and Transplant Institute. Image Credit: Reuters

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COVID-19 patients are treated on wheelchairs amid shortage of beds at the makeshift extension of the COVID-19 Emergency Room of government hospital National Kidney and Transplant Institute. Image Credit: Reuters

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A COVID-19 patient treated on a wheelchair, is cared for by his mother at a makeshift extension of National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City. Image Credit: Reuters

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Patients, seated beside their guardians, are treated on wheelchairs amid shortage of beds. Image Credit: Reuters

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Patients are treated outside the COVID-19 emergency room of the government hospital. Image Credit: Reuters

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Patients are treated on wheelchairs amid shortage of beds at the makeshift extension of the COVID-19 Emergency Room of government hospital in Quezon city. Image Credit: Reuters

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Patients are treated on wheelchairs amid shortage of beds in the makeshift extension of the COVID-19 Emergency Room of government hospital National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City, which has declared overcapacity following a surge of COVID-19 infections in Metro Manila, Philippines. Image Credit: Reuters

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A COVID-19 patient rests while his daughter and watcher sleeps on the floor of the COVID-19 emergency room. Image Credit: Reuters

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A hospital aide holds the hand of a COVID-19 patient treated in the COVID-19 emergency room of the government hospital National Kidney and Transplant Institute. Image Credit: Reuters

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