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It's crippling - here they call it the apocalypse.īergamo wanted us to see this, as I have said, and they want to send a simple message: "Get ready." Multiple hospitals all making the same demands at the same time. The problem facing health services across the world is that when the infection curve goes up it rockets, and all resources, all testing, all supplies are used up instantly. In labs, staff are continuously testing for the virus and attempting to find something that can beat it. Image: 'When you are at this point you realise that you are not enough,' says Dr Grazioli
They want the world's population to question their own governments' responses.īecause there can be no excuse anymore that nobody knew. The city of Bergamo invited us in to show everyone what a catastrophic emergency, that nobody has ever experienced before, looks like. We have all heard what has been going on here, but no journalist has been allowed in here to see it, until now. This killer pandemic is virtually out of control. The arrival of people here is an absolute constant. In this pandemic, gravely ill is considered a reasonable position. The people being treated are new arrivals, but they look far worse than that.Īnywhere else in the world they would be intensive care cases but here, to qualify, you are actually on the point of death, not just gravely ill. It looks like an intensive care unit (ICU), but it is actually just an emergency arrivals ward. Image: Hospital staff push a gurney carrying a man on a mobile respirator