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"In the Hospital del Norte of El Alto, a working-class city in Bolivia, visibly
sick patients queue for a consultation with a surgeon. At their feet, two stray
dogs sleep on a floor strewn with coca leaves.
Dr Silverio Condori, 49, was here when the coronavirus pandemic arrived in
Bolivia. He fell sick in June 2020 and spent two months in one of the country’s
few intensive care units. “I came back from another world,” he said.
“When I got out of hospital, I had to learn to walk, to eat, even to speak,”
Condori added, pointing to a neat horizontal tracheotomy scar at the base of
his throat. “I still have some paralysis in my right side. I’m a surgeon, but I
can’t operate. At least I’m still here, thank God.”
Condori is one of what is surely a great number of people living with the
after-effects of Covid-19 in low- and middle-income countries like Bolivia.
But as almost all research on long Covid has focused on richer countries, there
is little sense of the scale and nature of the health burden in such places –
nor is there awareness and support for those suffering from it."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: July 20, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-86365778
Cheers,
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