Short of gauze and bandages, Venezuelan medical students patch up anti-government protesters

For the past month, Federica Dávila, a fourth-year medical student at the Central University of Venezuela, has been part of the biggest wave of protests in the country since 2014. But Dávila isn’t marching with signs or chanting political slogans. She’s working with a group of 60 other medical students to keep Venezuelans safe during the protests. Their group is known as Primeros Auxilios UCV, a volunteer first-aid group of mostly medical students. They got together after a protest in 2014. This year when the protests started again, they decided to reactivate the group. "I think [it] is the best way that I can help my country at this time," Dávila says..  More…