Bolivians driven from pillar to post as Covid-19 overwhelms hospitals

Grover Ponce, 42, died after being shuttled between six different health facilities as his family watched in rising desperation

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In the two weeks before he died from suspected Covid-19, Grover Ponce was shuttled between six hospitals, as his wife Paola Medina battled the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Bolivia's health system.

Just days after he was finally admitted to the Santiago Segundo hospital in the city of El Alto, he had to be rushed to intensive care. But by then it was too late. He suffered two cardiorespiratory arrests and died on Sunday.