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https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987741403/brazil-covid-19-humanitarian-crisis-with-more-than-3-000-deaths-a-day
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Health officials in Brazil say many hospitals are running dangerously
short of sedatives and other crucial medications used for treating
gravely ill COVID-19 patients.
They say some health services have already exhausted stocks of certain
drugs, while others expect to do so within the next few days unless they
receive fresh supplies.
The warning comes amid intense international concern over the spiraling
pandemic in Brazil, where the average daily death toll has risen above
3,000, the highest in the world. To date, 365,444 people in the country
have died of COVID-19, according to Brazil's health ministry.
Brazil's health crisis is being described as a "humanitarian
catastrophe" by the international medical aid agency Doctors Without
Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF), which has teams in parts of
the country.
"The Brazilian authorities' ... refusal to adopt evidence-based public
health measures has sent far too many to an early grave," MSF's
international president Dr. Christos Christou said in a statement on
Wednesday.
He said this has put Brazil in "a permanent state of mourning" and has
caused "the near collapse of Brazil's health system."
The alarm over the lack of medicines is being raised, in particular, by
the country's richest and most populous state, São Paulo, which has so
far registered almost one in four of Brazil's total COVID-19 deaths.
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