1Ana Belén Sotelo waits this December 24 outside the Los Venados hospital until there is a bed available for her father, sick with covid-19.
He has been trying to admit him for three days, but the hospitals are saturated.
Due to security measures due to the pandemic, relatives cannot accompany patients inside the hospital, so many wait outside for long hours.
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2 Several people wait to be treated in the emergency room for covid-19 at the Hospital de los Venados.
More than a hundred medical centers in Mexico are at 100% occupancy.
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3Santa waits outside the emergency entrance for covid-19 for her brother to be treated.
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4A patient with coronavirus is admitted to the Mexico City Medical Center on December 24.
The hospital is overcrowded and has only one bed available for a serious case.
More than 30 hospitals are saturated in the Valley of Mexico, made up of the capital and the State of Mexico, an area that decreed the closure of non-essential activities a week ago.
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5Eliezer has been hospitalized for three days in the Medical Center for complications derived from covid-19.
Their relatives wait outside in their van to receive instructions from the doctors.
In the image, several of them order the drugs that the doctor has asked them to buy.
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6The emergency door for covid-19 at La Raza hospital brings together family members who are waiting to know if there are beds available for their relatives.
On the right, Guadalupe Vargas asks for information on her sister María Socorro, admitted on December 23.
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7Gabriela Martínez waits next to an oxygen tank on the outskirts of the infectology area of the La Raza hospital, where her husband Gabino Hernández has been hospitalized for three days.
Martínez called more than 15 public and private hospitals and this was the only one in which he got a space.
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8 A sign at the entrance of the Hospital Juárez warns that the center is saturated and cannot receive more patients.
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9Alan Romero waits at the entrance of the Juarez Hospital while his mother enters personal hygiene items for his father Luis Miguel, admitted for covid-19 on December 22.
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10A man dressed in a protective suit leaves the emergency room due to covid-19 at the Gabriel Mancera Hospital on December 24.
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11María Félix Díaz waits with other relatives outside the Troncoso Hospital to know the evolution of her mother, Gloria, who was admitted on December 24 due to complications derived from covid-19.
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12The surroundings of the Balbuena Hospital have become a small camp for relatives of patients admitted for all kinds of diseases.
Unable to wait inside for security measures due to the pandemic, many are sleeping outside.
Your relative's name can be played at any time from the hospital loudspeakers.
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13An altar to Santa Muerte stands right in front of the entrance to the emergency room of the Balbuena Hospital, in the Venustiano Carranza delegation.
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A Christmas at the doors of the hospital
2020-12-25T18:23:09.553Z
Relatives of patients with covid-19 spend this Christmas outside the hospitals of Mexico City waiting to receive information about their loved ones