A nurse in Madrid says lack of supplies is leaving Spanish healthcare workers to make difficult choices about who to save and who to let die
Business Insider España
- Gonzalo Merino, an ER nurse in one of Madrid's largest hospitals, is among the frontline medical staff still batting the COVID-19 crisis.
- Merino explains what it's been like, saying nurses in Spain have been forced to decide who should be put on a ventilator due to short supply.
- Some patients die with only a nurse's hand to hold, whole others die completely alone.
- Merino says the hospital where he works has been "figuring it out as it's gone along."
- The nurse also said he's incredibly grateful for taxi drivers, Spanish citizens who applaud them each night, and organizations that have come together to bring food to hospital staff.
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"We're having to decide who to give ventilators to because they're in such short supply," an emergency nurse from one of the largest hospitals in Madrid told Business Insider España.
Gonzalo Merino explained that staff in intensive care have been having to make hard decisions based on patients' medical histories and ages.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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