Lima, Peru, May 7, 2020 / 05:00 am
Two priests in a rural area of Peru aimed to fight the coronavirus pandemic by finding a way to supply oxygen tanks, much needed for medical treatment, to their region.
The recent death of two doctors from coronavirus in Iquitos, Peru, underscored the hard-hit region's shortage of medical equipment and medications. Both doctors died because of the lack of oxygen to treat them.
The Medical Corps of Hospital III of Iquitos and the Medical College of Peru said in a joint statement last month that there is a shortage of medications in the Loreto region, and its capital Iquitos is "one of the cities hardest hit by the infection."
"We don't have medications" to treat coronavirus patients and "not enough oxygen tanks, pressure gauges and refilled tanks," they reported.