Outraged Ecuadorians have taken to social media to show the horrific conditions they are being forced to endure through the coronavirus pandemic. A nation in total lockdown, Ecuador has only reported 146 deaths as of April 2 in a nation with over 16 million people, but citizens are portraying a country on the brink of collapse.
Lawyer Alberto Ortiz Galind posted a video of what he claims is footage from a hospital showing corpses piled up in a hospital closet space. Galind says that he believes over 1,000 people have died in Ecuador in the past week alone.
Mostramos estas imágenes de Ecuador al mundo para q sepa lo q está pasando, cadáveres en las calles y en los hospitales, la red hospitalaria no funciona, se cree que han muerto más de mil personas en la última semana, la ineficacia y estupidez de los gobiernos hace peor la crisis pic.twitter.com/KRb0xBriza
— Alberto Ortiz Galind (@lbertoortiz) March 30, 2020
Galind’s video was followed by a picture of bodies in black body bags laid on the floor of what looks like a hospital. That picture was sourced to another video found on Twitter posted by an Ecuadorian user who walked through halls filled with bodies alleged to be those of COVID-19 victims.
Equador pic.twitter.com/ufASmzRamn
— Otávio H M #Achismo ou Realidade (@MisaelOtavio) April 1, 2020
Even more grisly, another Twitter user posted a video of the body of an alleged COVID-19 victim being burned in the street, stating that the family had waited for days for the body to be retrieved before taking matters into their own hands.
Imagens terríveis continuam a surgir do #Equador. Os cidadãos queimam o corpo de uma vítima falecida do #COVID19 depois de passar dias esperando a remoção. A situação no país é completamente caótica. pic.twitter.com/43BjdfPZb3
— Mauricio Rayel (@mauriciorayel) April 1, 2020
More videos show bodies being disposed of in this manner, with corpses being put out on the street in furniture before being doused in gasoline and set alight.
MUY DURO. En Guayaquil #Ecuador están incinerando los familiares fallecidos por COVID19 en medio de la calle, utilizan como en este caso un mueble de la casa y le echan combustible ¿Por donde andará el contagio? Que horrible, Ecuatorianos abandonados a su suerte. #Cuba #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/qQCLD52M1a
— Guerrero Cubano (@GuerreroCuba) March 31, 2020
Another video from the Ecuadorian capital of Guayaquil was taken by a hospital worker showing that six deceased victims of coronavirus were being stored in a garage-like structure behind due to the morgue being over capacity. The bodies were packed in the same black wrap shown in other videos that have been posted purporting to show coronavirus victims.
#Ecuador ?? #CODVID19 Guayaquil. "Mi nombre Ángel Villena, ahora vamos a dónde estan los desechos infecciosos y hay 6 cuerpos embalados con coronavirus. La morgue está colapsada por eso los han puesto aquí. Embalados. Aquí están los cuerpos" Así se ensaña este genocidio. pic.twitter.com/9uW9culKHn
— Anonymous T. Colombia ?? (@AnonCol_1) March 30, 2020
Like several other countries including China, Iran, Indonesia, and Russia, Ecuador’s official death toll for the coronavirus is at odds with citizen reports portraying a situation more dire than what is reported to the World Health Organization. That leaves us to question the Ecuadorian government’s efforts to contain the disease.
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