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Ambulances create site visitors jams exterior Moscow hospitals as Covid-19 sufferers preserve coming (VIDEO)
Whereas common site visitors is now not a problem on Moscow’s roads as a result of coronavirus lockdown, the town’s ER drivers have encountered one other sudden drawback – lengthy strains of ambulances exterior hospitals.
An enormous queue of emergency automobiles was filmed exterior the Warfare Veterans Hospital in northern Moscow on Friday. The footage offered by RT’s Ruptly video company confirmed vans with pink crosses on them occupying not solely the method street to the hospital – which was lately repurposed to deal with Covid-19 sufferers – but additionally many of the neighboring avenue.
And it wasn’t an remoted incident, as one other video confirmed dozens of ambulances jammed on the street resulting in a hospital within the city of Khimki, simply exterior the capital. The automobiles contained individuals with suspected Covid-19 and pneumonia, who waited for hours.
The medical disaster middle in control of Russia’s battle in opposition to the coronavirus instructed RT that the queues of ambulances appeared exterior some hospitals resulting from “the present epidemiological state of affairs, which noticed the movement of sufferers growing in current days.”
Such a factor would’ve been “unacceptable” if the medical services had been working beneath regular circumstances, however they’re beneath elevated stress for the time being, the medics mentioned. They apologized to the sufferers for the inconvenience, however added that the problems with admitting individuals to hospitals “weren’t of a scientific nature.”
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The variety of confirmed coronavirus instances in Russia at the moment stands at 13,584, with 106 individuals having died. Greater than half of the contaminated (8852) and fatalities (58) are in Moscow, which is the biggest metropolis not solely in Russia, however in the entire of Europe, and in addition the nation’s foremost transport hub.
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