Miami Herald: Crisis in Venezuelan hospitals: too many patients, too few beds
“The health crisis in Venezuela is approaching levels comparable to the poorest nations, with naked women forced to give birth in a waiting room, patients treated on hospital floors, and forecasts that hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition. The alarming scenario also includes a shortage of medicines for treating severe diseases like cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure, and for containing outbreaks of contagious diseases, such as malaria and diphtheria. Services are very limited in both public hospitals and private clinics, where shortages of supplies have reduced the number of beds available to little more than 25 percent of what the country needs, according to experts…” (Delgado, 11/4).