Posted on 03/28/2018 10:08:37 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CNN)A survey of 104 health facilities in Venezuela, commissioned by the opposition-controlled National Assembly, paints a grim picture of a collapsed system hurting for even the most essential goods and services.
According to the report, most laboratory services and hospital nutrition services are intermittent or completely inoperative. Staggering statistics highlight the shortages of items such as basic medicines, catheters, surgical supplies and infant formula.
Venezuela has been in a downward spiral for years, caused by a combination of mismanagement of government funds and the plummeting price of oil. Skyrocketing inflation has created extreme shortages of food, medicine and other essentials, while planned (and unplanned) power outages are common throughout the country and don't discriminate between critical services like clinics and hospitals and the average household.
Water, the survey found, was rarely available at the participating facilities -- 79% of them had no running water at all.
Fourteen percent of intensive care units have been shut down because they're unable to operate -- and the vast majority of open ICUs have intermittent failures due to a lack of supplies, according to the report. Almost a quarter of pediatric ICU's have closed.
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Wait...didn’t Sean Penn and Danny Glover tell us that Venezuela was a worker’s paradise?
I guess it depend on what they expected.
For instance, I would have expected Venezuela to have one of the worst health care systems in the western hemisphere.
80% had no running water?
I’ll bet they’re real glad they voted twice for socialism.
Let’s send every American college instructor down there for a year.
Socialism works as I expected it to, at any rate.
Chavez was an ultra leftist, who simply took political advantage of the chaos, poverty and dysfunction caused by the previous 50 years of statism, socialism and leftist government corruption.
Why don’t Venezuelans overthrow this tyrannical government? Gee could it be that Maduro outlawed all private ownership of guns and only the police, the army and Maduro supporting militias have guns?
But, I thought I read for years that socialist medicine is the cat’s meow for it’s people?
Unexpected!
“Venezuela’s health system is in worse condition than expected”
What was expected...they adapted Obama care.
Venezuela’s health system is in worse condition than expected by the socialist cheerleaders in the lamestream media. By the rest of us, not so much.
Socialism works ... when you have virtually unlimited oil money flowing in.
Elections have consequences.
Oh well.
Elections have consequences.
Oh well.
I did a CTL-F and, yep, no mention is made of the S-word.
Ridiculous article. EVERYBODY KNOWS that communist countries have the finest health care in the world and it’s free for everybody.
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