Tunisia..a painful human scene of a corona patient dying under the hospital wall

In a painful scene that reflects the collapse of the health sector following the outbreak of the “Corona” epidemic, a patient has appeared dying under the wall of a government hospital in Tunisia, which is experiencing a record increase in deaths. Corona virus infections and deaths, while medical staff try to rescue her.

The incident took place outside Yasminat Hospital in Ben Arous, one of the governorates of Greater Tunis, where a video clip showed an elderly woman dying under the wall with an oxygen box beside her and surrounded by medical personnel attempting to rescue her for her, in a scene indicating that the hospital has reached its maximum capacity and has not been able to receive other patients.

The fourth wave of the epidemic

Tunisia lives in a critical health situation under the impact of the fourth wave of the epidemic which hit the country a few weeks ago, since it recorded a record number of injuries and daily deaths, and reached yesterday 7,930 cases and 119 deaths, a record the country has not seen since the outbreak of the epidemic last year, amid an inoculation slow to recover and subtract.

Authorities have imposed a general state of closure in some cities since last week, but they have refused to apply the general closure nationwide due to the economic and social crisis, while most of the population does not is still not vaccinated.

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Health officials called the situation in the country a “disaster” and announced that intensive care units had reached their maximum capacity in some hospitals, and approached her in other hospitals, and called on citizens to put implementing the necessary preventive measures to deal with the Corona virus, including wearing a mask and physical distancing and avoiding gatherings.

In light of this situation, demands have grown for the state to impose a full quarantine across the country, protect the lives of Tunisians and speed up the flow of enough vaccines, with complaints. concerning weak capacities and the collapse of the health system.