The German military is sending doctors, nurses and ventilators to Portugal, where hospitals are close to being overwhelmed. The country is battling a devastating third wave of the pandemic with nearly half of its total coronavirus death toll registered during January.
The main hospital in the Portuguese city of Viseu (Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu) is just one of the services working with stretched resources for weeks. On January 28, it reached a record of 278 hospitalised patients. According to its clinical director, Eduardo Melo, the number of patients hospitalised in January was close to the total number of patients hospitalised last year. Melo says that the situation is dire, but they re doing the best they can:
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