Overcrowded Chinese hospitals: Reported underestimation of casualties

by time news

Beijing:

There is a new wave of corona virus in China. There are reports that a large number of people are affected by this infection every day and the hospitals of that country are overflowing. The wards in Beijing’s southwest and smaller cities are overcrowded.

Reports say journalists have witnessed dozens of critically ill elderly patients being wheeled into overcrowded wards in Zhuzhou, China’s industrial province of Hebei.

In the new wave of corona virus in China, the mutated corona ‘PF7’ variant plays an important role.

In the name of ‘Zero Covid’ policy, the strict control policy brought by China to ensure that no one is affected by Corona caused people to despair and jump into protest. After that the restrictions were relaxed there. Corona tests stopped. Many are testing at their homes.

Only after that it has come to know that the current corona wave has risen.

It is said that even though the number of deaths due to Corona is increasing, they are not shown as deaths due to Corona. China records deaths mainly due to pneumonia and respiratory diseases.

No. 1 of Peking University. The head of the hospital, Wang Keiqiang, said that patients die because of pre-existing health conditions.

But there are scenes of crematoriums overflowing with bodies and people waiting in cars to receive the cremated remains.

Shopkeepers selling funeral items in Jujav city, a cremation center employee said, “Since the government eased the corona restrictions, the death toll has been increasing. Crematoriums, which used to cremate 3 or 4 bodies per day before, are now cremating 20 to 30 bodies per day after the relaxation of the corona restrictions.” reported.

Yesterday (Wednesday) no one died from Corona in China. But the Chinese National Health Commission has recorded 5 thousand 241 minus one of the country’s corona death toll. The reason for this is not even recorded.

Dr. Michael Ryan, head of emergencies at the World Health Organization, has criticized China’s definition of “corona deaths as too narrow.”

In this regard, he further said, “People who die of Corona die from failure of various organs due to the severity of the infection. Therefore, limiting the diagnosis of Corona death to a person with a confirmed infection in a Covid test and respiratory failure, may underestimate the actual number of deaths related to Corona.”

When the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said about the situation of the corona virus in China, he said, “Information about the seriousness of the spread of the corona virus in China is worrying.”

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