Egyptian hospitals run out of oxygen, killing COVID-19 patients in ICU wards
Video clips of the chaotic and tragic scenes in intensive care units (ICU) treating COVID-19 patients that ran out of oxygen supplies have provoked shock and outrage throughout Egypt.
On Saturday, video shot by a distressed visitor at the Zefta general hospital in the Gharbiya governorate, north east of the capital Cairo, captured the terrible scene in a ward where the oxygen had run out. It showed a woman running up and down the aisles shouting, “I will expose you everywhere… You filthy government!”, and filming rooms showing patients struggling on their beds and members of the medical team collapsed on the floor.
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The team was due to study the origins of COVID-19, first reported in Wuhan
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