Edmundo Gonzlez, likely winner of Venezuela election, flees to Spain

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48. "I have friends in Venezuela too. They are thrilled they can get free medical care." Thrilled, huh?

In recent years, Venezuela’s health care system has been plagued by widespread shortages of medicines, lack of water, and basic health products. Significant emigration of health care personnel and deterioration of infrastructure have further weakened the ability to address the population’s health needs.

Infant mortality rose by 63 percent and maternal mortality more than doubled from 2012 to 2016.
Since 2016, outbreaks of measles and diphtheria have spread throughout the country and into neighboring countries.
From 2016 to 2017, the country had the largest rate of increase of malaria in the world, with the number of cases growing to 414,527.
Tuberculosis cases increased by 68 percent between 2014 and 2017.
Only about 10 percent of HIV patients are receiving their prescribed antiretroviral treatment.
There are widespread outages of birth control. Shortages have led to a black market where birth control bills cost 14 times the minimum monthly income.
Ninety-eight percent of physicians in Venezuela believe the health-care crisis was the worst in 30 years and nearly three quarters believe that working conditions in public hospitals violate physician ethics and human rights.


https://publichealth.jhu.edu/0219/venezuelan-humanitarian-crisis-is-now-a-regional-emergency-new-analysis-finds