Venezuela asks the UN to help boost supply of medicines

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Venezuela asks the UN to help boost supply of medicines

25 March 2017 Latin America & Caribbean

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has asked for help from the United Nations to boost the country's supplies of medicines.

Mr Maduro said the UN had the expertise to normalise the supply and distribution of drugs in the country.

Venezuela's Medical Federation said recently that hospitals had less than 5% of the medicines they needed.

The president blames the problems on an economic war against his government and the sharp fall in oil prices.

``I've asked for support from the United Nations to help treat the economic and social injuries that have hit our people,'' he said Friday on television.

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[COLGATE4]

1. "Economic and social injuries

that have hurt our people". Translation: The complete and utter waste and pilfering of one of the most affluent countries in Latin America by a kleptocracy of ideological fanatics who utterly destroyed its economy in a little over 15 years, now begging for help.

[Jake Stern]

2. Poor Nicky

Begging the UN for meds must really sting his pride.