No electricity, no antibiotics, no beds, no soap: A devastating look inside Venezuela’s crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day, bleeding patients lie strewn on the floor, and doctors try to operate without tools

Wednesday, May 18, 2016
By Paul Martin

President Nicolas Maduro claims Venezuela has the best healthcare in the world after Cuba
But death rates are soaring and hospitals are filthy as supplies run low and electricity is shut off
The nation is in economic crisis after price of oil – their main monetary reserve – plummeted
Images taken by the New York Times show patients lying on the floor covered in blood and babies dying

By MIA DE GRAAF
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 May 2016

The impact of Venezuela’s economic collapse on its people is almost impossible to put into words.

But these images inside calamity-hit hospitals go some way to communicating the devastation.

Since oil prices plummeted, all aspects of everyday life – electricity, food, paper – have been rationed.

Critically, medical centers are in crisis.

Without soap, antibiotics, power, gloves and x-rays, surgeons are struggling to keep patients alive.

Pictures taken by New York Times photographer Meridith Kohut offer a glimpse inside some of the most notorious centers – while President Nicolas Maduro claims the socialist nation has the best healthcare in the world.

The Luis Razetti Hospital in the portal city of Barcelona looks like a war zone.

Patients can be seen balancing themselves on half-broken beds with days-old blood on their bodies.

They’re the lucky ones; most are curled up on the floor, blood streaming, limbs blackening.

Children lie among dirty cardboard boxes in the hallways without food, water or medication.

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