Doctors say Venezuela's health care in collapse

[bripat9643]

This is where we're headed:

News from The Associated Press

MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) -- Evelina Gonzalez was supposed to undergo cancer surgery in July following chemotherapy but wound up shuttling from hospital to hospital in search of an available operating table. On the crest of her left breast, a mocha-colored tumor doubled in size and now bulges through her white spandex tank top.

Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of Venezuela's biggest medical facilities, Maracay's Central Hospital. But like legions of the sick across the country, she's been neglected by a health care system doctors say is collapsing after years of deterioration.

Doctors at the hospital sent home 300 cancer patients last month when supply shortages and overtaxed equipment made it impossible for them to perform non-emergency surgeries.​

 

[Toro]

The rest of the economy is collapsing, so why not it's healthcare?

 

[Vox]

This is where we're headed:

News from The Associated Press

MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) -- Evelina Gonzalez was supposed to undergo cancer surgery in July following chemotherapy but wound up shuttling from hospital to hospital in search of an available operating table. On the crest of her left breast, a mocha-colored tumor doubled in size and now bulges through her white spandex tank top.

Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of Venezuela's biggest medical facilities, Maracay's Central Hospital. But like legions of the sick across the country, she's been neglected by a health care system doctors say is collapsing after years of deterioration.

Doctors at the hospital sent home 300 cancer patients last month when supply shortages and overtaxed equipment made it impossible for them to perform non-emergency surgeries.​

the reality of socialist economy

 

[Nova78]

Doctors say Venezuela's health care in collapse

Bozo must of copied Venezuela's health system to a tee....

 

[Avatar4321]

Is anyone surprised?

 

[daveman]

Is anyone surprised?

Progressives.

 

[ScienceRocks]

They need policies that favor a growing economy...

Liberalize their economic system and allow for taxes that are favorable towards a "free market" to form".

After that focus on education, infrastructure, science, tech and innovation.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Is anyone surprised?

Progressives.

Stupid pure socialist policies....Should go over to a hybrid system like Europe, most of asia and America

 

[daveman]

Is anyone surprised?

Progressives.

Stupid pure socialist policies....Should go over to a hybrid system like Europe, most of asia and America

Dunno about Asia, but you can't rationally make the claim that it's working in either Europe or America, Skippy.

 

[Barbarap]

From the link provided above;

Driving the crisis in health care are the same forces that have left Venezuelans scrambling to find toilet paper, milk and automobile parts. Economists blame government mismanagement and currency controls set by the late President Hugo Chavez for inflation pushing 50 percent annually.