An Italian doctor has described the heartbreaking final moments of dozens of coronavirus patients before they succumb to the deadly virus.

Doctor Francesca Cortellaro, who works at Milan's San Carlo Borromeo hospital, has had to witness patients saying goodbye to their relatives before they die alone.


The doctor: 'You know what's most dramatic?

'Seeing patients dying alone, listening to them as they beg you to say goodbye to their children and grandchildren.'

She added: 'They are lucid, they do not go into narcolepsy.

It is as if they were drowning, but with time to understand it.

'When they are about to die, they sense it'.

And describing the moment where she did her best to help the critically ill grandmother, she said: 'I pulled out the phone and called her on video.

'They said goodbye. Soon after she was gone.'

The doctor added that she now has a long 'farewell' list of similar calls which she has helped patients to make.



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A patient is carried from an ambulance at a hospital in Rome.

Medics treats a coronavirus patient on a makeshift bed in Brescia, Italy.




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Dr Cortellaro is just one of thousands of medics in the country who are battling on what is Europe's coronavirus front line there have so far been more than 47,000 cases of the infection in Italy and over 4,000 deaths more than any other country on the continent.

A patient seeing his family with the help of a doctor.

The sight of sisters Florence, three, and Edith, one, pressing their hands against the glass, as their great-grandparents in isolation did the same on their side, summed up our national plight in U.K.


There will be some terrible images documenting this nightmarish era for the history books.

Really heartbreaking!

Italy has the second-oldest population in the world, and the outbreak has killed a disproportionately high number of people in their 80s and 90s. Whoever Patient Zero was -- yet to be determined -- that individual may have brought the virus to Italy weeks before anyone noticed.

People are really dying in Italy, I fear for them

God help us all!!!

Dying and knowing that you're dying and knowing that you can't do anything about it. Even the person trying to save you can't offer much. Such a painful death. May we never experince such painful death

No one has really been able to give a concrete reason why Italy's case became so bad.

The deaths rates are eeriely staggering. Like something during the medival times when medicine was at it's infancy.

I really feel for those medic Sha.

Our heart are with them

This is serious...

How Italy got the virus in full dose keeps me wondering ooo.

So sad.

alezzy13:
No one has really been able to give a concrete reason why Italy's case became so bad.

The deaths rates are eeriely staggering. Like something during the medival times when medicine was at it's infancy.

I really feel for those medic Sha.

They have the second oldest population on earth. Their Youngs mingle well with the elderlies. A higher % of those who died are elderly people.

See beta hospital unlike ours ...so sad

Is it not @explorer again.

Enough potency for front page.

May God console the Italians.

According to CNN, most of them flouted the "stay at home" order.

I no wan hia se anything happen to any NLder.o

Be safe ppl.

Terrible... non of us will be a victim.

Sad one for italy

I got Intel that a part of Italy has massive number of Chinese! It's not just one person that brought in this virus, but SEVERAL! Cos they traveled for their new year and then came back.
That aside, the part of Italy having elderly people is true. Then again the medical facilities are limited and they can't give each patient the kind of attention the Italian man in Lagos got.

alezzy13:
No one has really been able to give a concrete reason why Italy's case became so bad.

The deaths rates are eeriely staggering. Like something during the medival times when medicine was at it's infancy.

I really feel for those medic Sha.

No one has really been able to give a concrete reason why Italy's case became so bad.

They have a very aging population... Second in the world. Old people have low immunity against the flu

Corona is reshaping the world.

So touching...

Hakeem12:
[b]Italy has the second-oldest population in the world, [/b]and the outbreak has killed a disproportionately high number of people in their 80s and 90s. Whoever Patient Zero was -- yet to be determined -- that individual may have brought the virus to Italy weeks before anyone noticed.

I thought Italy was First
Which country is first, please

As we go to our various churches tomorrow let meet with our pastor for prayers and anointing against Corona virus

we will survive

alezzy13:
No one has really been able to give a concrete reason why Italy's case became so bad.

The deaths rates are eeriely staggering. Like something during the medival times when medicine was at it's infancy.

I really feel for those medic Sha.

It's because Italy has the highest number of elderly people in the world. And their immune system is very low. Average age of those that died in Italy is 78.9yrs old

Ebola was deadlier than this virus and we overcame it. Surely we will overcome this one.

Real heartbreaking moment. I pray that the cure be discovered soon enough.

May God help us all and May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace, Amen

AuroraB:
I thought Italy was First
Which country is first, please

Japan

Hakeem12:
Italy has the second-oldest population in the world, and the outbreak has killed a disproportionately high number of people in their 80s and 90s. Whoever Patient Zero was -- yet to be determined -- that individual may have brought the virus to Italy weeks before anyone noticed.

A report from Al Jazeera states that the virus was brought to Italy by a couple from Wuhan China on January.

AuroraB:
I thought Italy was First
Which country is first, please

Japan