Venezuela's hospitals see rising death toll from blackouts

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“When I first arrived here, doctors gave me and my husband a list of supplies we needed to buy for my operation,” Patricia Arana said. “There’s no water, no light, no air conditioning here.”

People wait in a darkened hallway of an ER at a private hospital during a power outage in Caracas on March 25, 2019.Gabe Gutierrez and Annie Rose Ramos

Arana said her operation has been repeatedly delayed because there’s not enough bed space in the ICU. The showers in her hospital wing have no water. The smell is overpowering. And the patients fan themselves in the stifling heat.“When I first arrived here, doctors gave me and my husband a list of supplies we needed to buy for my operation,” she said. “There’s no water, no light, no air conditioning here.

Castro said at least 46 people died in hospitals as a direct result of the first massive power outage. He said at least six others have died so far because of the second one.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced a plan Sunday to ration water and power for the next 30 days. Winton Cabas, the head of Venezuela’s Association of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, said the country’s power grid is completely crippled.It’s common for residents to collect fresh water at small rivers and creeks across the countryside. But lately, the lines have grown much longer. Hundreds of people stood in line on Sunday, filling jug after jug. Some of them said they’ve been without running water for seven days.

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