Venezuela's economic crisis has wrecked its health system, creating severe shortages of protective equipment, intensive care beds and personnel. Some are worried COVID-19 could soon bring a new humanitarian catastrophe to the country.
A patient on a wheelchair waits in the emergency room at a hospital in Güiria, Venezuela, on March 14. Human rights organizations recently warned that Venezuela faces catastrophic consequences from the new coronavirus pandemic, which threatens to overwhelm its crumbling health system.Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images
The government of Nicolás Maduro says nine people have died from COVID-19 in Venezuela, with just 171 cases, but there is widespread suspicion that officials are suppressing information about the scale of the infection. The 1,000-bed University Hospital in Caracas has seen its roster of medical staff shrink by around half in the last year, according to Dr. María Eugenia Landaeta, head of its infectious disease unit."It is really hard to make the hospital work properly in those conditions," she says.
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