FILE PHOTO: Members of medical personnel test a person for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the testing site of the Erasme Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hospitals in the Belgian capital called on the federal government on Wednesday to address a shortage of medicines and equipment, as COVID-19 patients continue to arrive at intensive care units that are starting to fill up.
"Federal authorities do not seem to see or hear that the reality is that hospitals are in a massive shortage of all protective gear and drugs needed to treat COVID-19 patients and other categories of equipment like syringes," around 10 public and private hospitals said in a statement issued via the federation of hospitals and care homes for Belgium's regions of Brussels and Wallonia known as Santhea.
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