Egypt denies 'oxygen crisis' as Covid-19 ward videos allege shortage
Amid rising infection rates, authorities suppress efforts to discuss levels of vital supplies, as relatives' claims fuel concerns
Filming on his phone inside Egypt's Hussainiya hospital, Ahmed Mamdouh pans around the ward to show beds occupied by motionless bodies. All the people are dead," he says. Mamdouh's own relative had just died, for which he blames a lack of medical oxygen.
In another video, a screaming woman at Zeftah hospital in Gharbiyeh governorate demands nurses help resuscitate a relative. In a third, a man in Damanhour, in the Nile delta, gasps for air, glassy-eyed as he holds an oxygen mask in his hand. There is a lack of oxygen," he says, extending an invitation for local health minister to come and witness the problem. Join us, minister."
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