Hell in a hospital ward or "ordinary day in the Venezuelan Hospital" Bashny.Net

Several decades ago, Venezuela was the country with the highest standard of living in Latin America. Now depending on oil prices, Venezuela is facing a crisis so serious that it may well expect a humanitarian and social disaster. President Nicolas Maduro May 14 for another two months, extended the state of emergency, saying that this is done in order to "neutralize foreign aggression»

. The most important system of the state no longer actually work, including health care. Newborn children are dying every day, says the surgeon a clinic, and it is only a small part of the overall crisis. Hospitals lack not only of antibiotics and cures for deadly diseases, but also electricity, food and even water. These photos made Meridith Kohut of the New York Times in different clinics in Venezuela.

This man hours waiting for help in the normal working area. B>





Julio suffered a serious head injury. He had to wait a whole year for a subsequent operation due to lack of medical staff. B>





Instead of special cargo of plastic bottles and containers for liquids. So the doctors come out of the situation in the treatment of fractures. B>





In hospitals, there is nothing to wash the blood from the operating table and surgeons prior to surgery have to wash their hands soda, purchased in the store. Surgical gloves and soap are also there. Out of order and no longer operate X-ray machines and equipment for kidney dialysis, no paper to take notes about patients.

In the oncology department of a clinic. B>





A woman with her little daughter, who suffers from asthma. Connecting directly. B>





A woman with her little daughter, who suffers from asthma. Connecting directly. B>





When the city power outages occur, which is not uncommon, stop working apparatus for artificial respiration, which are including in maternity wards. Doctors clock manually ventilate the lungs of infants. Patients die of infections that have nothing to stop on the floor, because the beds are not enough. Venezuelan hospitals look like a front-line hospitals, although there is no war in the country.



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