Doctors working despite being infected, beds filled with dozens of elderly straining to breathe—on the front lines of China's worst-ever COVID-19 outbreak, hospitals are struggling.
At Nankai Hospital in Tianjin, around 140 kilometers southwest of the capital Beijing, AFP on Wednesday saw more than two dozen mostly elderly patients lying on gurneys in public areas of the emergency department.
In the hospital's separate fever clinic, AFP saw doctors in hazmat suits attending to around 30 mostly elderly patients, some of whom were clutching printouts of CT scans. Many were attached to IV drips and several lay inert. Others shivered and coughed in face masks, wooly hats and thick blankets.
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