July 30, 2024

In crisis-hit Venezuela, maternity wards have become death traps

Courtesy of Transparency International

A 2019 survey by HumVenezuela, an NGO documenting the country’s humanitarian crisis, found four in ten hospitals had a shortage of basic supplies, and eight out of 10 did not have enough surgical tools or medicine.The obstetrics wards of half the country’s maternity hospitals were partially or fully out of service in 2019, it said. Thousands of trained doctors and nurses are among the five million Venezuelans estimated to have left the country in recent years in search of a better life elsewhere. Full Text -> France24

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