Thursday, September 22, 2016

Babies are left in cardboard boxes at cash-strapped hospital in Venezuela


The economic crisis in Venezuela is now so bad that doctors are using cardboard boxes instead of incubators to keep newborn babies. These photos of tiny sleeping children have caused outrage after they were posted online, and have shone a light on the desperate situation in the country. Manuel Ferreira, director of human rights for coalition group the Democratic Unity Roundtable, said they had been taken in the Domingo Guzman Lander hospital in Barcelona, in the north-eastern state of Anzoategui. More…

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