Tunisia’s Premier Hichem Mechichi has laid off the nation’s Health Minister, Faouzi Mehdi in the wake of burgeoning COVID-19 cases in the country and Mehdi’s underperformance.
With a population of about 12 million, only 8 percent had been vaccinated, the final straw for the relieved health minister was when there was a stampede at 29 temporary vaccination centres where vaccines were in shortage and in the Premier’s words, neither the head of government or governors were aware ahead of time of the shortage
Also, a horrifying video went viral on social media, apparently showing the bodies of Covid-19 casualties piled up beside garbage cans. The footage is claimed to have been shot at the country’s largest hospital, Charles Nicole.
The hospital’s mortuary was overcrowded as a result of the spike in coronavirus deaths, according to Dr. Moncef Hamdoun, who works there. Special processes are required to move bodies to other hospitals, he explained, and these take time to set up, resulting in inadvertent storage arrangements.
Hamdoun went on to say that the hospital’s management is going to buy a refrigerated truck to preserve dead that the mortuary can’t contain. Nobody should have been let into the room where the dead were stacked up, he insisted.