Health-care staff demonstrate outside Miguel Perez Carreno hospital in Caracas on March 11, 2019, as a massive power outage continues affecting some areas of the country.The humanitarian emergency caused by the collapse of the Venezuelan health system requires a full-scale response by the United Nations, two organizations said Thursday.
But he declined to say if the U.N. was considering an emergency declaration, noting that it would need “the consent of the government, in order to distribute humanitarian aid along with our principles of neutrality and impartiality.” Venezuelan authorities have failed to publish health and nutrition data and retaliated against those who did, according to the report.