Venezuela crisis threatens disease epidemic across continent - experts
Source: The Guardian
Collapse of Venezuela’s healthcare system could fuel spread of malaria and other diseases across region
Sarah Boseley Health editor and Emma Graham-Harrison in Tumeremo
Thu 21 Feb 2019 23.30 GMT
Experts have warned of an epidemic of diseases such as malaria and dengue on an unprecedented scale in Latin America following the collapse of the healthcare system in Venezuela.
Continent-wide public health gains of the last 18 years could be undone if Venezuela does not accept help to control the spreading outbreaks of malaria, Zika, dengue and other illnesses that are afflicting its people, experts have warned in a report published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Venezuela was once a regional leader in malaria control, but as healthcare has collapsed there has been a mass departure of trained medics, the report says, creating a public emergency “of hemispheric concern”.
“These diseases have already extended into neighbouring Brazil and Colombia, and with increasing air travel and human migration, most of the Latin American and Caribbean region (as well as some US cities hosting the Venezuelan diaspora, including Miami and Houston) is at heightened risk for disease re-emergence,” says the paper.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/21/venezuela-crisis-threatens-disease-epidemic-across-continent-experts
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Chavez own daughter, Maria Gabriela, first refused to move out of the Presidential mansion after Hugo Chavez death from cancer. After she finally decided to leave (to live in a bigger house in Spain... and France... and Italy) she took her pocketbook, along with her wages from being a low level UN bureaucrat! About $4.3 billion.
A woman of The People!
That's a lot of anti-malarials.... and HIV drugs, insulin, antibiotics, aspirin, sterile gauze, needles, IV supplies, sutures... stuff you might find at any hospital in a SOCIALIZED country. You might also find doctors, nurses and skilled technicians of various types too. But not in ChavismoLand. There you get "Bolivarian Medicos" and fake "Cuban doctors"... at least the ones who have not fled or returned to Cuba due to non-payment of wages.
