Hospital El Salvador

One of the accomplishments touted most often by the government of Nayib Bukele is the construction of a hospital dedicated to treating COVID-19 patients, "Hospital El Salvador." The hospital was constructed by converting facilities at the CIFCO convention center in San Salvador and a promised third phase still under construction across the street. The official twitter account for the Hospital @HospitalSV describes itself as "The largest and most modern hospital in Latin America. For the people, always the best." This feed, along with government health ministries and the president's office, regularly broadcasts pictures like these of modern facilities and happy recovered patients: From @HospitalSV tweet From @HospitalSV tweet The operations of the hospital were described for the world in a comment piece in The Lancet titled Hospital El Salvador: a novel paradigm of intensive care in response to COVID-19 in central America , written by hospital staff docto