report from the collapse
Monday, April 26, Emmanuel Álvarez, director of the Moreno Hospital, made public a letter that was like a flare from the battle front. The health system is on the verge of collapse and while the governments are entangled in judicial tangles, the health personnel are beginning to see the face of the worst of ghosts: that moment when death overflows all care for life, and it is necessary to decide who gets to let go of the hand. Chronicle from the bowels of the suburbs where anonymous heroes and life-saving machines do not give up.
A work done for REVISTA CRISIS and FOREIGN POLICY
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