LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Connected with the fanatics, 11 premature young children fought until Thursday in the extensive care unit of a Bolivian motherhood.
Babies’ oxygen source is at risk, doctors say, due to national blockades through supporters of former President Evo Morales’ party who oppose the recent postponement of the election. The political crisis in Bolivia adds to the burden on its fitness system, which suffers from coronavirus as it continues to spread in one of Latin America’s poorest countries.
Street riots broke out after the Supreme Electoral Court moved the scheduled vote from September 6 to October 18 following warnings from medical experts that no elections would be held while the pandemic was not yet under control.This was the third time the vote was held.delayed, provoking the wrath of protesters accusing the government of interim president Jeanine – He tries to simply hold on to power.
Today, after about 10 days of blockade, materials are at risk in some hospitals that also face an increasing number of COVID-19 patients, according to the authorities.
Unsecured secretary general Guterres has asked Bolivian establishments to negotiate responses to the country’s problems, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
“Ask the organizers of the protests to ensure the passage of ambulances, oxygen and medicines and to allow the delivery of essential goods and facilities to the population,” Dujarric said Tuesday.
At the Los Angeles Paz Women’s Public Hospital, pediatrician Dr. Hugo Tejerina said baby oxygen materials were fully depleted on the Los Angeles weekend, but materials came through the air in the Los Angeles minute..
The smallest bath was 950 grams (2 pounds) at birth, and the lives of babies under extensive care “hang in a thread,” Tejerina said.
No newborns in the hospital died due to oxygen shortages and relief along the way, the doctor said. A 66-ton convoy of liquid oxygen is expected Thursday in La Paz after 3 days of crossing barricades and angry protesters.
Still, the blockades have a broader effect on Bolivia’s troubled fitness system, as ambulances are rarely prevented from reaching hospitals, and the Ministry of Health said 31 adults with COVID-19 had died since last Friday due to lack of oxygen.
The government called the stage inhumane and blamed Morales’ supporters for causing even more distress at a time when the pandemic is charging a very high price in the country, but the government is reluctant to use force to break the blockades, recalling widespread bloodshed.year, when Morales resigned after an election marred by irregularities.
Morales, who had ruled for 14 years, left Bolivia after resigning and may face sedition and other charges if he returns.He is Bolivia’s first indigenous president and continues to have a strong influence in the country.His party, the Movement to Socialism, controls Congress.
Bolivia has reported almost 4,000 deaths from COVID-19, although the actual number is estimated to be much higher.Major city police said last month that they recovered the bodies of many suspected sufferers of coronavirus from houses, cars and, in some cases, the streets.Patient-filled hospitals and funeral homes were besized by grieving relatives who sought to bury their dead.
About 60% of the women’s hospital medical staff were inflamed by coronavirus and had to leave their jobs, and many pregnant women had to move from one hospital to another, hoping to locate an area where they could give birth, Tejerina said.
On Thursday, Yola Quispe, 39, stood in front of the hospital doors, heavily pregnant with twins. Quispe said the hospital had not yet shown whether a bed was available.
“I already have pain and I fear they will be born underweight, ” he said.Still, “I don’t need my young children to stay in the hospital.There’s no oxygen.”