As Russia's COVID-19 toll surges, a Siberian hospital struggles to cope


  • World
  • Saturday, 23 Oct 2021

BIYSK, Russia (Reuters) - The beds at the intensive care unit at this Siberian hospital rarely stay empty for long. Doctors at Hospital No. 2 in the Russian city of Biysk are having to cope with an unprecedented surge of coronavirus patients, many of whom are unvaccinated.

Doctors at the hospital have to work up to three 24-hour shifts in a row. The work is much harder than during the first wave of the pandemic last year, deputy chief doctor Olga Kaurova said.

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