Rise in Starving Children Puts Strain on Venezuela’s Hospitals…”Doctors Now Have to Steal Food From Hospitals to Feed Their Own Families”
SABRINA MARTÍN
PanamPost.com
JUNE 8, 2016
The increasing shortage of food and other basic products in Venezuela, on top of inflation, is now takingits toll on the health of the nation — most notably, on its malnourished children.
Children frequently arrive to the San Felipe Central Hospital after having fainted from malnourishment, officials told the PanAm Post, and are given medicine to take three times a day,
Mothers tell physicians they don’t have enough food in their homes, even after rationing.
“Children under five months of age come in here with diarrhea and when the parents are asked what the child has been eating, they say mostly rice cream because they can’t get milk,” one hospital worker said.
The same source confirmed parents blame themselves because they don’t have the salary or access to staple foods to improve the situation.
“You can’t feed a five-month-old on rice,” the source said, “and it’s going to affect their long-term health.”
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