A shocking video for Tunisians. Corona corpses next to hospital garbage

A video clip, in which a number of bodies of Corona virus victims are laid out next to garbage bags in a public hospital in Tunis, shocked the country, in a scene showing the Corona tragedy which has drained the area of ​​the city. Tunisian health.

في التفاصيل, ذهبت إحدى العائلات لتسلم جثمان قريبهم المتوفي جراء فيروس كورونا من قسم الكوفيد بمستشفى شارل نيكول بالعاصمة أمس الأربعاء, لكنهم فوجئوا بتواجده داخل غرفة مخصصة لفضلات وقمامة المستشفى عوضا عن حفظها في غرفة الأموات, مع انبعاث روائح كريهة, فقامت بتوثيق المشهد ونشره على مواقع social communication.

The video clip showed the bodies of Corona victims lying on the floor and stacked in a random room inside the hospital, with unprotected trash bags, amid a state of neglect and complete absence hospital officials, which angered Tunisians.

“Humanity is dead”

One of the activists commented on the video saying, “Mankind is dead, even the dead can no longer find someone to honor it in this country. To deny it or hide it.

In response to these criticisms, Dr Moncef Hamdoun, head of the forensic service at Charles Nicole Hospital, said in a radio statement that the daily number of deaths in the hospital fluctuates between 10 and 18 people per day, this which caused “an overcrowding of corpses in the mortuary service and filling its capacity,” he adds. The exhumation of the bodies of the Covid-19 dead requires special procedures on the part of the municipality, and these procedures take of time, adding that the corpses that appeared in the video along with the garbage will be removed quickly.

Refrigerator truck for body preservation

He added: “We are currently considering acquiring a refrigerated truck to store the bodies, and citizens should not have been allowed to enter the room and photograph it, noting that the cleaner who erred in placing garbage in the morgue will be held responsible. . “

Tunisia is living in a critical health situation under the impact of the fourth wave of the epidemic that hit the country a few weeks ago, as it recorded record figures for the number of injuries and daily deaths, reaching more than 6,000 cases and 177 deaths yesterday, a record the country has not seen since the epidemic began last year, amid a slow outpouring of pollination.