Continent is brought to its knees by ‘silent devastation’
The cold, tired and desperate relatives camped outside the Barrio Obrero general hospital in Asunción don’t need charts or datasets to confirm what they can see with their own eyes.
As Paraguay records the world’s highest daily proportion of Covid deaths relative to population, the huddled families wait for news of their loved ones – and for sudden pleas to search out the medicine and supplies that their country’s chronically underfunded health system cannot provide.
“There’s really so little support from the government – it’s a disaster,” said Jessica Ortigosa, whose father was being tended in a chair instead of
