'You'll never die alone' despite the pandemic is the policy of Barros Luco Hospital, in Santiago. Dr Lopez comforts a terminal patient at the humanised farewell room, where patients receive messages from their relatives through technological devices. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
All over the world, people are dying alone as relatives are barred from visiting them in hospital for fear of catching and spreading the coronavirus. But not in Chile.
Here, special units have been set up where family members and loved ones are able to say their goodbyes even inside public hospitals where the virus is rife.
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Accompanying them through their last days
A nurse with a protective gown hugs a Covid-19 patient at the Intensive Care Unit of the Barros Luco Hospital in Santiago. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
Barros Luco Hospital in Santiago has a humanised farewell room where terminal patients receive messages from their relatives through technological devices. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
A nurse washes her hands at the end of her shift, at the Barros Luco Hospital, in Santiago. As the fatality rate in coronavirus hit Chile is on a halt, the humanised farewell room first intended only for Covid-19 cases, is now used for all terminal patients. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
A nurse at the humanised farewell room. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
View of face shields at the humanised farewell room, where terminal patients recieve messages from their relatives through technological devices. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
Dr Lopez takes a break after seeing to a patient at the humanised farewell room. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
Technological devices are used for families to communicate with patients in the humanised farewell room. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
A nurse removes the corpse of a patient who died at the humanised farewell room, where terminal patients receive messages from their relatives through technological devices, at the Barros Luco Hospital, in Santiago. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
Dr Lopez holds an iPad for a terminal patient to listen to a farewell message from his relatives, at the humanised farewell room. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
Dr Lopez holds an iPad for a terminal patient to listen to a farewell message from his relatives at the humanised farewell room at the Barros Luco Hospital, in Santiago. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
'You'll never die alone' despite the pandemic is the policy of Barros Luco Hospital, in Santiago. Dr Lopez comforts a terminal patient at the humanised farewell room, where patients receive messages from their relatives through technological devices. Photo: AFP/Martin Bernetti
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