They thought he was dead from the coronavirus and at the hospital they wrapped him with wrapping tape “like a mummy”

A young man died in a traffic accident was wrapped in wrapping tape “like a mummy” at a hospital in the Philippines, where they believed he had coronavirus, the victim’s family reported.

Merwin Fábregas He was admitted to Nueva Vizcaya hospital after being seriously injured in a traffic accident. Her distraught mother says that Instead of being treated for his injuries, he was admitted as a Covid-19 patient and taken to the Respiratory Viral Disease Department.

“I couldn’t stop crying because of what happened,” the victim’s mother, Mitchilou Fabregas Sapipi, said in an interview with the local news program. 24 Oraas.

“They didn’t care about him. They should have taken care of my son, but they wrapped him up like a mummy, ”the woman said.

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The director of the hospital, the doctor Napoleon Obaña, said life support was not disabled until the patient was pronounced dead. “We didn’t kill him,” he justified himself.

Asked why Merwin was treated like a coronavirus patient, he said: “There is an increase in cases in the region. We want to protect those who live in Vizcaya. We must treat it as a suspected case of Covid because it could have infected other people. This could spread the infection. “

The Philippines are currently fighting one of the worst waves of Covid in Asia: the death toll is 18,260, with 1.11 million infections.

The maximum number of daily infections fell from its high of 15,310 on April 2, but they warn it remained above the daily average of 1,700 in 2020.

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Until the last report, approximately 750 patients were in critical condition awaiting favorable outcome. On the other hand, there are a little over a million people recovered in the country.

The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is monitoring the situation closely as authorities continue to coordinate the actions of health workers across the country, which is already on the verge of collapse.

When Covid-19 infections began to increase alarmingly around the world, many countries responded by closing schools, work spaces and international borders to contain the spread of the virus.

In this sense, at the present time, there is precisely a travel ban for those arriving from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, as the country seeks to protect itself from other potentially deadly variants of the coronavirus.