Senior doctors have walked out of hospitals in protest over the lack of essential supplies needed to treat their patients. Emergency cases are still being cared for but that situation cannot continue for much longer before all the necessities have been depleted. One news source cites the doctors’ concerns on the ‘shortages of painkillers and syringes and … nurses had to wash and reuse bandages, increasing the risk of infection’. Read more
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