As the country battles with a harsh second wave, four patients with coronavirus died in Egypt on Saturday in the intensive care unit of al-Husseineya Central Hospital in the country’s Sharqia Governorate due to an alleged lack of oxygen supplies. A shocking video went viral on social media showing the intensive care unit inside the hospital. The camera pans between beds of motionless patients, while medical staff try to save another patient, and a nurse squats to the floor in shock. The person recording the video can be heard repeating: “all those in the intensive care are dead… there is no oxygen.” Social media users claimed that the deaths were due to the exhaustion of the hospital’s oxygen supplies. He pointed out that the hospital’s oxygen network is feeding both the intensive care and incubators departments, saying that there were 17 children in the incubators, and 36 COVID-19 cases in the isolation department.

Source: Egypt Independent January 03, 2021 10:30 UTC