The opening and the last day of São Paulo's Field Hospitals, built for light and moderate cases of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus). The facilities have been set up inside the Pacaembu Football Stadium and Ibirapuera Gymnasium to prevent the healthcare collapse during the pandemic.
The facilities have been shut down in 29th June and 26th September with a drop off in demand of beds for the treatment of the disease.
Iray Fernandes, 70, gets discharged from the Ibirapuera Gymnasium Field Hospital with a tribute on the last day of the facility on September 26th of 2020. Nurses and doctors celebrated with balloons the closure of the field hospital with the drop off in demand of new beds against the disease.
Nilza Dantas Batista, 61, one of the last patients of the Pacaembu Field Hospital gets discharged from the facility on June 29th of 2020.
Nélio de Moura Moyses, 55, gets discharged from the Pacaembu Field Hospital, and became the last patient of the facility, on June 29th of 2020.
Empty beds of the Pacaembu facility during the pandemic of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on June 29th of 2020.
Doctors, Nurses and workers from the Pacaembu Field Hospital leaving the facility on it's last day operating, June 29th of 2020.
A nurse is seem wearing a face mask that shows super heroes praising a medical team on the last day of the Pacaembu facility on June 29th of 2020.
Hundreds of Pacaembu Field Hospital employees after the closure of the facility, on June 29th of 2020. The scene marks the last day of operation of the facility.
Empty beds of the Pacaembu facility during the pandemic of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on June 29th of 2020.
Nurses and doctors make a tribute to the last patients that got discharged of the Pacaembu field hospital on its last day operating, on June 29th of 2020.
A monitor displaying a 'Standby' sign on April 29th of 2020, at the Ibirapuera Field Hospital.
A empty bed of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Ibirapuera Facility. While addressed to light to moderate cases, the facility had beds for more delicate cases of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) treatment, on April 29th of 2020.
A nurse wearing a face shield and a mask demonstrates how to operate a respirator on April 29th of 2020 at the Ibirapuera Facility.
Ibirapuera Field Hospital facility seem from the Gymnasium grandstand on April 29th of 2020. The field hospital was the last built in the city of São Paulo for light and moderate cases of the disease.
Empty beds inside of Pacaembu Field Hospital on March 27th 2020. The facility was the first Field Hospital built in the city of São Paulo during the Pandemic of the COVID-19 (coronavirus).
The facility of Pacaembu Field Hospital seem from the Stadium grandstand on March 27th of 2020. The field hospital was the first built on the city of São Paulo for light and moderate cases of the disease.
The village of Gagjali (or Godjalih) in Iraq is a suburb of Mosul, awfully close to the front line. Equally inhabited by Arabs and Kurds, both ethnic groups lived in peace until the arrival of Daesh. Every day arriving there, by foot or by some fortune vehicles, many families fleeing war directed towards the nearby refugee camps, stopping for a short rest. In the village, there is also a small hospital run by American volunteers of a Slovak N.G.O., Academy of Emergency Medicines, young guys which provide first aid services to those in need: civilian and military alike. Their work is terrible and grueling; the hospital is nothing more than an abandoned house. Often the first-aid workers must work without proper supplies, in particular, the lack of blood for transfusions. Lack of blood is the main reason for deaths in the hospital. A.E.M. is a small N.G.O. with few resources and they don't have a refrigerator where to store blood, once the injured begin to bleed it is over. Children are the hardest patients to treat because of their low threshold of pain that makes them move all the time and for their physical frailty. Once rescued, people are transported by ambulance to the nearest available and better-equipped hospital. The local economy is almost nonexistent, just a shepherd and a young boy who sells tea and snacks to foreign journalists.
Out from the hospital
Bringing a body to a cemetery out from Godjali after the funeral
A civilian victim of a bullet on the foot by a sniper
A very young child is treated for a head wound, fortunately the injurion is not dangerous.
A sniper blew the jaw to this man. Snipers of Daesh do not shoot the civilians to kill but to do more damage so that in the next years they will be a cost to society
Refugees escaped from Mosul taking rest before to continue their walk to the refugee camp.
Children of the village playing with marbles in a space beside the hospital full of bullet cartridges
Three generation of Godjali residents (children, fathers and grandpa) in front of their house after the Friday lunch
A civilian walking near a corpse in decomposition of a Daesh soldier close to the front line
An injured soldier brought by a Humwee, shooting photos to the injured soldiers it's forbidden
An injured soldier arrived by a cart pulled by hand
The foot of a dead man
the bloodstained trousers of a doctor
A woman is brought to another hospital with an ambulance
People fleed from Mosul arrived in Godjali by a pick-up
A family crying the relative (may'be a grandma) just dead.
Father bringing his injured child to the hospital
A young child is treated for shrapnel wounds
Doctors try to reanimate a young boy victim of a bullet. Unfortunately there's nothing to do when somebody bleeding too much.
A father cry the death of his young son
A man bringing his son to the ambulance to go to the most near hospital. The Godjali hospital give just a first aid
A man and his old father on the wheelchair
A Humvee Bringing another injured soldier after the sunset.
There is no light and the hospital has difficulty treat people, in spite of this the volunteers remain to help those need