There are plenty of reasons to avoid
getting pregnant if you live in Venezuela. So impoverished has the country
become that maternity units cannot afford to feed expectant mothers from Friday
afternoon until Monday lunchtime. Antibiotics, blood pressure treatments and
painkillers are a rarity. Medical staff have to re-use surgical gloves. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, maternal mortality is soaring, up 43 per cent in three years.
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