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Venezuela’s growing medical shortage
http://www.euronews.com/2016/06/03/venezuela-s-growing-medical-shortage/From bread and beer to sugar and toilet paper – you name it, Venezuela’s economic crisis has resulted in a chronic shortage of basic goods.
But, the lack of vital medicine is particularly acute.
Experts say the government’s import of low cost alternatives and how they are handled has led to a ‘‘drastic reduction” in medical success rates, notably in treating cancers like leukaemia.
Paolo Marquez Eneida 8-year-old son has Leukaemia. She said:
“There is nothing here (medicine) and we have to go to other countries to look for the medicine and that is very expensive. Unfortunately, the situation we are going through is terrible. There are many children and adults who are dying because there are no medicines to treat the diseases they have.’‘