Madrid, Spain, Mar 19, 2020 / 23:00 pm
Spain is among the countries hardest hit by the global coronavirus pandemic; as of Thursday afternoon, more than 18,000 Spaniards have contracted the disease, and more than 800 have died.
Fr. Gaetan Kabasha, a native of Rwanda and a chaplain at Madrid's San Carlos Hospital Clinic, describes his recent days there as very intense.
"This last week was frenetic. Everything has radically changed. The medical staff knows what to do and they have their protocols. The relatives, as normal, are worried," the priest told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner.
Kabasha and four other chaplains serve the hospital together.