Coronavirus Hits Spain’s Health Services Hard

BARCELONA—In Spain, the place with the world’s 2nd-highest loss of life toll from the new coronavirus, the pandemic is leaving wellness services on the brink. Infected patients are left for times in wheelchairs since there are no beds, and protective equipment for healthcare personnel is so scarce that some are fashioning robes out of garbage luggage.

Around the past two weeks, Spain has experienced one of the fastest-developing outbreaks of the coronavirus. That has caught its wellness sector mostly unprepared, say healthcare personnel, echoing…