A heavy burden to bear: Italian healthcare nears breaking point

As the Italian healthcare system nears breaking point, doctors are having to make drastic decisions about which patients to treat and which to leave die, write Emilio Parodi, Silvia Aloisi and Pamela Barbaglia

Funeral home workers in protective masks transport a coffin of a person who died from coronavirus into a cemetery in Bergamo, Italy. Picture: Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo