The pint-sized patients didn’t look like your everyday
protesters. Frail children and teenagers, donning facemasks and hunched over in
wheelchairs, clutched signs as they gathered with parents this week in a small
crowd in front of the José Manuel de los Rios hospital in Caracas, Venezuela.
They pleaded for help with a system they said was failing them. “J.M. RIOS
HOSPITAL IN EMERGENCY,” one protest sign blared. “CANCER DOESN’T WAIT,” read
another. It was a demonstration for a desperate situation. The J.M. de los Rios
hospital, Venezuela’s pre-eminent medical center for children, was running out
of drugs. Its supply of 19 different chemotherapy medicines had gone dry,
leaving several young cancer patients untreated for more than two weeks. More… 
Monday, August 17, 2015
Under Maduro, Medical Shortages Reaching Critical Level
The pint-sized patients didn’t look like your everyday
protesters. Frail children and teenagers, donning facemasks and hunched over in
wheelchairs, clutched signs as they gathered with parents this week in a small
crowd in front of the José Manuel de los Rios hospital in Caracas, Venezuela.
They pleaded for help with a system they said was failing them. “J.M. RIOS
HOSPITAL IN EMERGENCY,” one protest sign blared. “CANCER DOESN’T WAIT,” read
another. It was a demonstration for a desperate situation. The J.M. de los Rios
hospital, Venezuela’s pre-eminent medical center for children, was running out
of drugs. Its supply of 19 different chemotherapy medicines had gone dry,
leaving several young cancer patients untreated for more than two weeks. More… 
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