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			<title>Brazil's hospitals running out of sedatives as Covid-19 rages</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 21 10:07:54 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Reports of the seriously ill being tied down and intubated without effective sedatives]]>
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				<![CDATA[Brazil&#39;s hospitals were running out of drugs needed to sedate Covid-19 patients on Thursday, with the government urgently seeking to import supplies amid reports of the seriously ill being tied down and intubated without effective sedatives.

Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said Brazil was in talks with Spain and other countries to secure the emergency drugs. Hospitals, he added, were also struggling to get enough oxygen.

The scenes playing out across Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, are placing growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro.

Aid group M&eacute;decins Sans Fronti&egrave;res (MSF) said Brazil&#39;s &quot;failed response&quot; had led to thousands of avoidable deaths and created a humanitarian catastrophe that could still get worse.

Brazil has recorded a total of 361,884 coronavirus deaths - only the United States has more - and 13,673,507 confirmed cases.

More Brazilians are currently dying of the virus each day than anywhere else in the world, with South America&#39;s largest country reporting another 3,560 deaths on Thursday. Bolsonaro has opposed lockdowns and held large events in which he often does not wear a mask. He has only recently embraced vaccines as a possible solution.

Brazil&#39;s hospitals are struggling to cope.

Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have both sounded the alarm over shortages of sedatives, with Sao Paulo&#39;s Health Secretary saying the city&#39;s ability to care for seriously ill Covid-19 patients is on the verge of collapse.

&quot;I never thought that I would be living through something like this after 20 years working in intensive care,&quot; Aureo do Carmo Filho, an ICU doctor in Rio, told Reuters.

&quot;Using mechanical restraints without sedatives is bad practice ... the patient is submitted to a form of torture,&quot; he said.

Seriously ill Covid-19 patients struggling for breath are sedated in order to put them on ventilators, an intrusive practice the body can naturally resist.

With ICU beds at or near capacity across the country, hospitals are being forced to create improvised intensive care beds which often lack equipment or professional expertise.

Globo television network on Wednesday reported cases from a Rio hospital in which patients were intubated with a lack of sedatives, tied to beds.

The Albert Schweitzer hospital, through the press office of the city of Rio which runs it, said there was a shortage of intubation drugs but that substitutes were being used to ensure medical assistance was not compromised. It said mechanical restraints were only used when prescribed by a doctor.

The city of Rio added that a batch of intubation drugs was set to arrive on Thursday.

Sao Paulo blamed the shortage on the federal government.

&quot;The irresponsibility and neglect of Brazilian lives is unbelievable,&quot; Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria said on Twitter.

&quot;FAILED RESPONSE&quot;

M&eacute;decins Sans Fronti&egrave;res said Bolsonaro&#39;s government had not done enough to prevent the tragedy.

&quot;More than one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the failed response in Brazil has caused a humanitarian catastrophe,&quot; said Christos Christou, a medical doctor and president of MSF, called Doctors Without Borders in English.

&quot;Each week there is a grim new record of deaths and infections - the hospitals are overflowing and yet there is still no coordinated centralized response,&quot; Christou said in a briefing with reporters, adding that the situation was expected to become even worse in the weeks ahead.

Bolsonaro has openly fought against state and local governments seeking to institute lockdowns, saying Brazilians need to get on with normal life and that job losses are more dangerous than the virus.

MSF Director-General Meinie Nicolai said the surge in cases cannot be blamed only on the contagious Brazilian Covid-19 variant, known as P.1.

&quot;The P.1 variant is certainly a problem, but this doesn&#39;t explain the situation in Brazil,&quot; she said.]]>
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			<title>Adiala Jail overcrowding may spread viral diseases</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 20 19:16:33 +0500</pubDate>
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				<![CDATA[Imran Asghar]]>
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				<![CDATA[5,591 inmates are incarcerated in jail against the capacity of 2,174]]>
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				<![CDATA[A significant issue of overcrowding inmates in Adiala Central Jail in Rawalpindi &mdash; one of the most sensitive prisons of the country &mdash; has become a matter of concern which can cause outbreak of viral diseases amongst prisoners.

The jail authorities have sent a detailed report regarding the issue to the Interior Ministry.

The prison having a capacity of nearly 2,000 inmates was currently hosting 257 per cent more inmates in each barrack of the prominent prison in the city of Punjab. Overcrowding has caused many scuffles amongst inmates which have become a routine part of life in the prison.

Currently, 5,591 inmates were incarcerated in the prison against the capacity of 2,174 inmates, according to the report sent to the ministry and received by The Express Tribune.

The report stated, out of total prisoners in the jail, 1,430 were from Islamabad while

300 were from other provinces of the country.

The jail authorities mentioned in the report that 3,385 under trial inmates &mdash; against whom various cases were pending &mdash; were kept in the prison while 1,884 inmates were convicted of grave crimes, including terrorism, murder, robbery, adultery and kidnapping for ransom.

It was also stated that appeals against conviction of prisoners were also being under trial in high courts.

Also, the report pointed out that currently, 322 accused inmates were in the prison who were yet to be sentenced.

The authorities maintained the report had been sent to Interior Ministry to bring the issue to the notice of government officials and figure out a solution of an alternative prison to resolve the issue of overcrowding.

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Human Rights had furnished a report to the Supreme Court on the measures it had been taking to contain the spread of the coronavirus among inmates, painting a grim picture of conditions in the overpopulated prisons across the country.

The report stated prisons across Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa were packed beyond capacity. Stating the figures of inmates in the prisons, the report said 45,324 inmates were incarcerated in 41 prisons of Punjab against the housing capacity of 32,000 inmates.

16,315 inmates were incarcerated in 24 prisons of Sindh against the total sanctioned strength of 13,538 inmates in the province&rsquo;s jails.

In 24 prisons of K-P, 9,900 inmates were incarcerated against the existing capacity of 4,519 inmates.

However, the situation was different in Balochistan&rsquo;s prisons having 2,122 prisoners against the sanctioned capacity of 2,550 inmates.

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