Madagascar Hospitals "Now Only Accepting Severe Cases," As COVID-19 Cases Spike
Hospital officials in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo say they are struggling to cope with a rush of coronavirus patients that they are now admitting critical patients.
To date, the Indian Ocean island nation has recorded 7 548 coronavirus cases, including 65 deaths a development which Health department official Zely Arivelo Andriamanantany attributes to the use of COVID-Organics (CVO) and lack of social distancing.
Speaking to AFP on Tuesday, Andohotapenaka Hospital director Nasolotsiry Raveloson said:
We are now only accepting severe cases.
The number of cases is increasing more and more.
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We now have 46 severe cases and so we only have four spaces left.
The country’s President Andry Rajoelina has been promoting an infusion derived from Artemisia, a plant with proven anti-malarial properties, as a homegrown cure for the coronavirus.
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