Project HOPE Team Responds to Urgent Health Needs as Venezuelans Flee

Project HOPE announced today that it is deploying an emergency response team to address an exodus of people fleeing political turmoil and an economic collapse in Venezuela that have contributed to the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere and created dangerous health conditions. The Virginia-based international medical NGO is sending a team to Cúcuta, Colombia -- one of the areas near the border with Venezuela that is experiencing an influx of displaced people. Three million people are expected to have left Venezuela by next year. Displaced people are trying to escape a society hampered by extreme hyperinflation and severe shortages of food and medicine that have degraded the health care system More…