The economic crisis in the South American country has sparked a public health emergency that has claimed the lives of countless Venezuelans and deprived others of treatment and care.

The medical needs are basic, but deeply felt, ranging from gloves to antibiotics and from running water to chemotherapy.

Inside and out, the country appears to have come to a standstill, its citizens waiting in line to buy food, medicine, materials for surgery and more. More often than not, there's a stinging "Sold Out" at the end of the lines, which snake around for blocks in cities across the country.

Lawmakers estimate that the country is lacking about 95 percent of resources to treat a variety of conditions, according to a spokesman for the country's congressional Commission on Health. Since the Venezuelan Ministry of Health has not released official numbers, the commission has had to rely on reports from doctors around the country.

As hospital care collapses, death rates have ballooned. The national cancer death rate has more than doubled, from about 60 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2000 to more than 140 in 2013, the last date for which data was available, according to lawmakers. Nine of the country's 23 states don't have resources to give radiation treatment.

And then there's the wait. There are more than 40,000 people in the country waiting for surgery, and about 5,000 waiting for transplants in the country of 30 million, according to a 2016 report from the commission.

At the Universitario, once a top surgical center in the region, mattresses are bare and many restrooms shuttered. To get from one floor to another in some areas, patients must yell through the doors of some of the hospital's elevators to alert the attendant operating it because buttons are broken. Running water comes and goes. Roaches have colonized in some rooms. There's no air conditioning in public areas, hallways or in most patients' rooms.



Full report here........

http://abcnews.go.com/International/venezuela-crisis-rampant-shortages-leave-country-shambles/story?id=40261315

OP, is a parasitic consumer simple.

macluvph1:
OP, is a parasitic consumer simple.

Is this ur highest level of IQ? What a pity!

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modsfucker:


Is this ur highest level of IQ? What a pity!

E pain am, if e no pain you, you won't be quoting me.

Also you quoting me truly shows am right by calling you a parasitic consumer.

Leopardd:
How does this concern Biafrans?

We have made it clear that Biafra will not have an economy built on love of oyel, if u build an industrialized and technologically driven economy, oyel is nothing, unfortunately nigeria loves oyel and will kill plenty for it, so that advice is for them

I also asked that question.

Some people think we are mates.

ConqueredWest:


I also asked that question.

Some people think we are mates.

We are not mate of course.... When u fail to think with your head then you are of course far from being my mate.

Lesson to Nigeria and not Biafra.

This is what happens when you depend on only one means of survival and when it crashes, you crash alongside it. When you realize the consequence of it, it's already to late.
This is a lesson to youth of today especially Nigerian youth who instead of working and diversifying their means of income are busy fight online forming patriotic.
And in reality they cannot even use mouth to fight talk less of physical fight.