Knights of Columbus send critically needed oxygen to Amazon patients aleteia.org

A woman named Thalita Rocha, in an Instagram video that went viral, made an emotional plea from the city of Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon. “We are in a deplorable situation,” she said. “Whoever has oxygen availability, bring it here to the polyclinic. Many people are dying.”

Rocha saw patients suffocate to death in the hospital where her mother-in-law was being treated in mid-January. She saw doctors cry. She dropped to her knees and prayed. “It looked like the end of the world,” she said, according to the Washington Post…

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