Bolivian hospitals are struggling to keep up as an outbreak of dengue is spreading rapidly and killing dozens. This marks Bolivia’s largest outbreak since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hospitals in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz region struggled Wednesday to keep up withdisease since the COVID-19 pandemic
. Most of the almost 7,000 cases detected since January have been in Santa Cruz, the country’s most populous region, where two of the most lethal variants of the illness have been detected. "The hospital is full, there’s no more space, patients sleep in the hall in order to be admitted," Fredy Rojas, a pediatrician at the Santa Cruz Children’s Hospital, told a local radio station."Many children get here in serious condition and there isn’t enough time to reverse the situation."
A city worker fumigates for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside a school in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on Feb. 4, 2016.Dengue causes flu-like symptoms that most people recover from, but also can rapidly lead to internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. There generally is no specific treatment for the disease,Dengue is endemic in Bolivia and proliferates in the country's east during its December-to-March rainy season.
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