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Stretched Senegalese hospitals overwhelmed by third wave

July 29, 2021 Daily Focus / Latest Developments Senegal Reuters Article/Blog post by John Schellhase

“‘Patients, particularly young ones, are arriving in respiratory distress,’ Dr. Khardiata Diallo, head of infectious disease at Fann hospital in Dakar, said, her voice cracking with exhaustion. ‘We’ve never had this number of cases, deaths and severe cases. Frankly, this third wave threatens to drown us.'”

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