Belarus: Covid disaster - patients waiting in queues on the street
Sick people suffer in queues, long tails of queues stick out of
buildings (hellish photos:
https://bit.ly/3s3lu2a). Attempts to call
a doctor at home by phone are unsuccessful: an automatic informant
reports that the call will be processed in about half an hour. On the
eve of the Ministry of Health of communist Belarus, several days
reported record numbers for the incidence of COVID-19.
Apparently, the phone lines of health care facilities are also
overloaded. "Approximate waiting time - 27 minutes" - announces
an automatic voice when trying to get through to the clinic. Some
can't even get through to the answering machine. For example, the
website reader Kirill, assigned to the 20th polyclinic in Minsk,
was able to get through to the doctors on the 473rd attempt!
"One person serves both calls and a live queue," the reader explains.
"The algorithm is this: they pick up the phone - they say "wait" -
they serve two or three people in a queue - then one on the phone."
Two strains of Covid-19 Delta and Omicron are circulating in the
country at once. The regime did not take any sanitary measures to
protect people.
