Baby deaths soar in starving Venezuela

Venezuela’s health system is on the brink of collapse as preventable diseases such as measles and malaria rampage through its cities and infant mortality rises, a study has found. The country is facing a “complex humanitarian emergency” that requires a full response from the United Nations, according to research from Human Rights Watch carried out with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US. After long denying the crisis President Maduro has allowed the Red Cross to deliver aid for 650,000 people. Venezuela has largely stopped publishing healthcare statistics and doctors fear for their jobs if they speak out, but data smuggled from five locations around the country showed “alarmingly high” levels of acute malnutrition in children More…