GENOCIDE! Maduro blocks humanitarian aid to hide the horror of hospitals

 
              

    

     

Maduro's Venezuela translates into a deep social crisis. Six years have passed since his regime and the country falls apart. There is no sector that is in optimal conditions, and health is one of the worst faces of the Venezuelan crisis

The deterioration of any public medical center in the country is manifest. The operating rooms lack air conditioning, the equipment is damaged and the surgical interventions are done without any anesthesia, but meanwhile Maduro insists on denying the crisis and maintains that humanitarian aid today is an "excuse" to justify an eventual military invasion in the oil country. 

 

Pablo Zambrano, executive secretary of the Federation of Health Workers, believes that health goes beyond the political. "It is a human right that has been violated for lack of authorities and we see the consequences."

On a tour of the Maternal and Child Hospital of Caricuao «Dr Pastor Oropeza» located in a popular sector (neighborhood) west of the capital ABC could see the horror with which the most needy of Venezuela have to live. A young resident doctor Oriana Perdomo openly denounces that what happens in this and most of the hospitals is that the directives are "organized mafias of medicine" and that they have the support of officials with a lot of power. "In a hospital like this with a capacity of 110 beds, only 20 percent are operative, the operating rooms are almost inoperative and the delivery rooms do not have the corresponding asepsis," he adds.

 

 In the emergency room of the infantile mother of Caricuao, a baby of just two months with severe pneumonia was fighting for his life; and the only way to treat it is through an oxygen cylinder. «Tell me if this does not merit humanitarian aid. Here we can not deal with this alone. We hope that an ambulance arrives to move it so that it can be located in another health center that can receive it, "says one of the nurses who attends it.

"Venezuela can not be made a false promise of supposed humanitarian aid. We are not beggars of anyone, "he said in reference to the Country Plan presented by the interim president, Juan Guaidó, who prioritized the entry of inputs and medicines for the vulnerable population. The numbers do not lie and show the radiography of the country.

 

 The National Survey of Hospitals published at the end of 2018 by independent organizations revealed that 43.24% of the laboratories in the country are "absolutely" closed. In addition, 51.3% of health centers do not have X-ray services and 67.57% of health centers reported electrical failures. 

 

The Human Rights Office of the United Nations warns that the Maduro Government has not recognized the existence of the current health crisis and has not requested the international cooperation that the situation demands, and in which 300,000 patients with chronic diseases are affected .

On the origin of humanitarian aid.

 

 In 2016, the National Assembly, with an opposition majority and beginning the exercise of its functions, decreed a humanitarian crisis in the Venezuelan health sector. Parliament took the measure "in view of the serious shortage of medicines, medical supplies and deterioration of the humanitarian infrastructure", according to the approved agreement. 

 

The text demanded that the government of Nicolás Maduro "guarantee immediate access to the list of essential medicines that are essential, indispensable and essential and must be accessible at all times." 

 

One of the points contemplated was to accept donations of medicines from other countries and to summon the national pharmaceutical industry and the Executive to look for urgent solutions. Days later, the law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Maduro.

 

 

By Jorge Benezra / abc.es