Many Venezuelan Hospitals Lack Basics To Function, Let Alone Handle COVID-19

A patient on a wheelchair waits in the emergency room at a hospital in Güiria, Venezuela, on March 14. Human rights organizations recently warned that Venezuela faces catastrophic consequences from the new coronavirus pandemic, which threatens to overwhelm its crumbling health system.Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images

The government of Nicolás Maduro says nine people have died from COVID-19 in Venezuela, with just 171 cases, but there is widespread suspicion that officials are suppressing information about the scale of the infection. The 1,000-bed University Hospital in Caracas has seen its roster of medical staff shrink by around half in the last year, according to Dr. María Eugenia Landaeta, head of its infectious disease unit."It is really hard to make the hospital work properly in those conditions," she says.

Socialism is not sustainable IlhanMN

Venezuela is acting in a responsible manner by detecting, quarantining, and treating the population affected by coronavirus The 'sanctions' have made more difficult to get medical supplies but fortunately they got help from other countries. More than 4,000 tests per 100,000 ppl

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Thankyou United States for your sanctions which are killing people.

The fruits of socialism paying off

Sounds like a great plan that will not be implemented until 2021 When Biden takes over.

As expected people have been dying of starvation way before this, no one wants to stay and no one has helped the ones who couldn’t leave.

Venezuela used to be one of the major oil producing countries. Development of the Nation's other sectors is the way to go.

Atleast they can rest easy knowing they cant possibly handle it worse than america. They atleast provide their citizens with healthcare.

Praise socialism!

sanctions are great

The embargo is destroying them.. it's criminal.

Venezuela's socialism is the problem.

Covid-19 is preferable to communism.

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Socialism is what they need to fix this problem.

Hey, socialism works though!

The 'economic crisis' has a name. It's called socialism.

Defundnpr

wow sounds like here, only ours isn't an economic crisis, ours is a Republican Donald crisis

Now talk about the USA's

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