Overwhelmed Secondary Hospital in Central China Lacks Drugs, Beds, and Staff: Nurse

Overwhelmed Secondary Hospital in Central China Lacks Drugs, Beds, and Staff: Nurse
A patient on a gurney who is receiving oxygen is wheeled into a busy emergency room at a hospital in Beijing, China, on Jan. 2, 2023. Getty Images
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A secondary hospital in China’s central Hunan Province is overcrowded with patients amid the pandemic outbreak that started last December.

“We don’t have enough beds; we’re running short of medicines; our colleagues have almost all been infected by COVID,” claimed a nurse who works at the hospital, adding that only two nurses haven’t been infected by COVID so far.

Sophia Lam
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Sophia Lam joined The Epoch Times in 2021 and covers China-related topics.
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