Several layers of dirt cover the floor. Pigeons
fly about the rooms and across dim hallways where at least half of the lights
are out. Sadly, the spooky scene is not from some movie but from one of
Venezuela’s main hospitals, the Clinical University Hospital of Caracas (HUC). Crisis
here runs so deep that in the first two weeks of March most surgeries had to be
cancelled for lack of running water. Patients wait for months to get a
procedure because the hospital and the entire country is increasingly out of
basic medication and surgical supplies. More…
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