Health workers on the front lines of fighting the Corona virus in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, which is suffering from a collapse in its health system, revealed the daily horrors they face. Health field.

In another hospital, a nurse told France Presse that the doctors were forced to wrap and store the bodies so they could reuse the beds.

Ecuador has recorded nearly 23,000 cases of coronavirus and nearly 600 deaths, and Guayaquil was the most affected city.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a 35-year-old nurse at the first hospital said that what he saw affected him professionally and personally.

He added that when the health emergency began in March, each nurse moved from caring for 15 patients to 30 in just 24 hours. He continued: "A lot of people arrived ... They were dying in our hands."

He told Agence France Presse that the other patients were discharged from hospital or transferred to other facilities to free all of this family of patients with Corona virus.

He continued: "The injured are on their own and feel sad while the treatment causes damage to the digestive system and some of them defecate ... feel bad and think that they will stay in this state and see the person next to them begins to suffocate and start screaming to teach the nurses that they need oxygen."

And not only the heaviest hospitals, but the morgues as well.

The nurse said, "The morgue staff could not receive more bodies, so they often had to wrap and store them in the bathrooms."

Another nurse, a 26-year-old colleague, confirmed these chaotic scenes to Agence France-Presse, saying: "A lot of bodies were thrown in the bathrooms, many of them were thrown to the floor and some were thrown onto the chairs."

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