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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts) Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:37 PM Dec 2015

Venezuelan healthcare in collapse as economy ails

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34983075

Venezuelan healthcare in collapse as economy ails

By Tim Franks
Presenter, News Hour
3 December 2015

Santiago Ortiz is lying, eyes closed, on the bed. He is no picture of repose.

Above his jaundiced, swollen belly, his thin chest is pumping fast. His face twists into the pillow. An oxygen mask is strapped tight across his mouth and nose.

Santiago is two years old and has acute myeloid leukaemia. What he does not have is adequate treatment.

Inside his cramped room, on the 10th floor of the University Hospital of Caracas, his doctor, paediatric resident Joam Andrade, points to the cockroaches on the walls, and the sticky tape holding his oxygen tube together.

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Venezuelan healthcare in collapse as economy ails (Original Post) FrodosPet Dec 2015 OP

I wonder how the election is going. hrmjustin Dec 2015 #1

BBC: Venezuela votes in tense congressional elections FrodosPet Dec 2015 #2

Thanks. I hope it is a clean election. hrmjustin Dec 2015 #4

He's not going to get better if the conservatives get in. Treatment might not be a right then. craigmatic Dec 2015 #3

Treatment with no medication is no treatment at all.... EX500rider Dec 2015 #5

Nope I just realize that most of their problems are caused by the oil price falling. It's hard to craigmatic Dec 2015 #6

When you have the worst inflation in the world and the 2nd highest murder rate.. EX500rider Dec 2015 #7

They wasted billions. joshcryer Dec 2015 #8

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

1. I wonder how the election is going.

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:39 PM

Dec 2015

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)

2. BBC: Venezuela votes in tense congressional elections

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:45 PM

Dec 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35019111

This should get you started. No exit polls, so the world has to wait until officials announce the results.

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. Thanks. I hope it is a clean election.

Reply to FrodosPet (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:47 PM

Dec 2015

craigmatic

(4,510 posts)

3. He's not going to get better if the conservatives get in. Treatment might not be a right then.

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:47 PM

Dec 2015

EX500rider

(10,881 posts)

5. Treatment with no medication is no treatment at all....

Reply to craigmatic (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:52 PM

Dec 2015

.....do you actually have any idea what the oppositions healthcare platforms are?

craigmatic

(4,510 posts)

6. Nope I just realize that most of their problems are caused by the oil price falling. It's hard to

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 06:41 PM

Dec 2015

socialize with nothing to do it with but I'm also very distrustful of conservative parties generally. So either way they're fucked but at least with the socialists they'll try to support the people even if they fall short. At this point the conservatives will probably just privatize infrastructure while leaving the people to struggle by themselves.

EX500rider

(10,881 posts)

7. When you have the worst inflation in the world and the 2nd highest murder rate..

Reply to craigmatic (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 06:48 PM

Dec 2015

....there's nowhere to go but up.

joshcryer

(62,277 posts)

8. They wasted billions.

Reply to craigmatic (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 07:05 PM

Dec 2015

Any proper socialist approach would have diversified. Instead they kicked out US private companies and replaced them with Chinese private companies. It was perhaps the greatest wasted opportunity in all of Latin America.

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