The Mater Dei sanatorium in Buenos Aires is one of the few but growing number of medical facilities in Latin America that allow relatives to be with patients dying of the novel coronavirus.
In Germany at the start of the outbreak, hospitals across the country ended all patient visits as a precaution, but reinstated them in May with restrictions. At Berlin’s largest hospital, Charité, patients are allowed only one visitor per day, though those considered seriously ill have no such restrictions. But at the same time, visitors are restricted on a case-by-case basis for patients deemed to be still infectious.
In Spain, most hospitals and nursing homes now allow such visits in a controlled environment. At Madrid’s 12 de Octubre Hospital, one of the biggest in the Spanish capital, relatives are given protective equipment and have to take turns in going into the patient’s room or intensive care unit. Such visits are still barred in Italy.
In Latin America, hit relatively late by the novel coronavirus, family visits remain rare regionwide. Some hospitals in Chile and Brazil allow them. At least 11 hospitals in Argentina already allow them, and more are considering it, according to physicians consulted by The Associated Press Fernanda Mariotti’s mother was hospitalized in another facility in Buenos Aires, where doctors refused to let her daughter see her because the facility’s rules for COVID-19 patients did not allow it.
Mariotti, 53 and also a pediatrician, said she was convinced her mother’s death last month was due partly to ’’the pain and fear″ of feeling separated from her family.
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