3 photos show just how health workers in Spain — which has the 2nd highest death toll in the world — are struggling under the coronavirus outbreak
— the largest daily increase of any country in the world.
A corridor is filled with patients and medical personnel at an emergency unit of a Spanish hospital, in Getafe, outside Madrid, Spain on March 24, 2020.Madrid is particularly hard-hit, with doctors resorting to treating thousands of patients in the IFEMA exhibition center because there is not enough space in other hospitals.
Medical workers hug each other outside the emergency rooms at Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain on March 26, 2020.Another image from the 12 de Octubre hospital shows an exhausted paramedic in his ambulance outside. "Going to work is like going to war" said the nurse, who is responsible for administering patients with IVs and providing medication for those admitted on a daily basis.
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