The New Threat to Mexico's Failing Hospitals

Prognosis: Breakthrough

• Episode: The New Threat to Mexico's Failing Hospitals
• Website: Prognosis: Breakthrough
• Feed URL: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLM8995439705
• Duration: 00:16:15
• Published: 2020-06-11 23:09

The coronavirus is hitting Latin America in ways unseen in the developed world. In Mexico, Covid-19 is savaging a health care system that was already inadequate. Doctors and nurses in Mexico say they lack masks and gloves. Hospitals are at 80% capacity in Mexico City. More than 20,000 health care workers have caught the virus. Nacha Cattan reports on what happens when a crisis hits a system that was unprepared, and underfunded, in the best of times. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com