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Related: About this forumDying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/world/americas/dying-infants-and-no-medicine-inside-venezuelas-failing-hospitals.html?_r=0---------------------------
Hospital wards have become crucibles where the forces tearing Venezuela apart have converged. Gloves and soap have vanished from some hospitals. Often, cancer medicines are found only on the black market. There is so little electricity that the government works only two days a week to save what energy is left.
At the University of the Andes Hospital in the mountain city of Mérida, there was not enough water to wash blood from the operating table. Doctors preparing for surgery cleaned their hands with bottles of seltzer water.
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The figures are devastating. The rate of death among babies under a month old increased more than a hundredfold in public hospitals run by the Health Ministry, to just over 2 percent in 2015 from 0.02 percent in 2012, according to a government report provided by lawmakers.
The rate of death among new mothers in those hospitals increased by almost five times in the same period, according to the report.
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I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one, Mr. Maduro said.
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Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
May 2016
OP
I remember in Venezuela when supermarkets had food. I could walk into a store
Bacchus4.0
May 2016
#6
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. Everybody should view the handiwork of the Chavistas who have turned
what was a first class Health system into something out of sub-saharan Africa.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. It was a wonderful country pre-Chavez. Look at it now nt
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. It was! It's beyond pitiful to see what they've done with it.
Unbelievable. How a bunch of ignorant ideologues can screw up an entire country in 18 short years.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)6. I remember in Venezuela when supermarkets had food. I could walk into a store
and buy milk, eggs, and meat with Bolivares. Those were the days.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)7. Yep. And when Doctors could prescribe drugs to cure you
and hospitals actually had equipment and basic supplies. Oh, the Plutocratic nightmare Venezuela was.
Zorro
(15,753 posts)3. Tragic.
Wonder what the forum's resident Latam internet scholar has to say about this? I noticed that her page 1 thread flood doesn't have a single one about Venezuela.
Curious.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)5. No, we only discuss the 'successes' of the Chavistas, plus a little good
old fashioned 'the devil (or US or CIA or Colombia or Illuminati_ made them to it' when trying to excuse their many failures.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)8. Biggest story in Latin America now but someone doesn't want it to be nt