Courtesy of Transparency International
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed Venezuela’s already collapsing health care system to the limit. More than half the country’s doctors had left in recent years as émigrés or refugees. Doctors and nurses earn as little as six dollars per month in public hospitals and often lack access to soap and running water, let alone masks, gloves, gowns, and other essential PPE. As a result, doctors make up more than 14 percent of the COVID-19 death toll in Venezuela. Full Text -> Transparency International
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