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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:11 PM Feb 2015

Desperate patients forced to beg for medicine on Twitter in Venezuela because the crumbling economy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2952542/Desperate-patients-forced-beg-medicine-Twitter-Venezuela-crumbling-economy-left-country-unable-import-medical-supplies.html

Hundreds of desperate Venezuelans are being forced to beg for medicine on Twitter because the crumbling economy has left the country unable to import basic medical supplies.

Using the hashtag '#ServicioPublico', Venezuelans are pleading with foreigners to send them treatments for all manner of conditions - including blood disorders, viruses and infections.

Things have got so bad in the country that experts are claiming that 15 per cent of those who die of cancer would have had a chance of survival had proper radiotherapy treatment been provided.
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The only response from the Venezuelan government to the developing crisis so far had been to issue an directive stating: 'It is strictly prohibited for patients or their families to bring medicines or medical supplies for their treatment, even if hospitals don't have the necessary supplies.'

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Desperate patients forced to beg for medicine on Twitter in Venezuela because the crumbling economy (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Feb 2015 OP

I'm so glad my family left while they could TexasMommaWithAHat Feb 2015 #1

Prepare for standard responses: COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #2

Why bother, we will just cut and paste from your strawman filled strawman cart. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #3

we should expect a flood of products on the market now w the devaluation Bacchus4.0 Feb 2015 #4

Yep. Any day now....... any day...... COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #5

waiting is the name of the game in Venezuela Bacchus4.0 Feb 2015 #6

TexasMommaWithAHat

(3,212 posts)

1. I'm so glad my family left while they could

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:26 PM

Feb 2015

They had a nice two bedroom home that sold for pennies on the dollar. If they had waited any longer, we would have had to send them money to leave. Things are desperate over there.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

2. Prepare for standard responses:

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sat Feb 14, 2015, 05:05 PM

Feb 2015

1 - It's all [pick one]__________ (America's) (CIA's) (Colombia's) (Rich pig capitalists) fault.
2 - There is really no shortage of medicines. The oligarchs are just hoarding them to make a killing when they expire.
3- The Revolution really doesn't need medicine to survive or prosper. Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
4- What about Allende? Remember Allende?
5- Weisbrot says it's all an exaggeration. So there.