Venezuelan Mothers Die; Chavismo Blames History
By Juan Carlos Gabaldón - October 30, 2017
Its 3:00 a.m. and you walk out the door of the obstetrics emergency ward of a public hospital. Its cold and you stand right next to the small white door, trying to stay out of the rain while you call Daisys relative not her real name the fifteen year-old girl waiting on one of the pink gurneys inside.
Daisy arrived an hour ago, after a four-hour ride, because she started having contractions. Shes entering the last month of her pregnancy and hasnt gone to her first OB/GYN control yet. Doctors just found out she needs an emergency cesarean because the baby is too big and her pelvis too small. When Daisys seventeen year-old partner and her thirty-something mom answer your call, you tell them the hospital lacks absolutely all the material required for the surgery and unless they find it in the next couple hours, the young girl and her baby may die.
This isnt a one-in-a-lifetime kind of story. It happens all the time. I cant even remember how many times Ive been standing in that door myself. Sometimes its 3:00 a.m., sometimes its the middle of the day, it can rain, the sun can shine. Its always the same. Our never-ending crisis is mercilessly killing young mothers by the hundreds, one day at a time.
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https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/10/30/venezuelan-mothers-die-chavismo-blames-history/
But the UI's will continue to insist that these are isolated incidents... that this is only right wing propaganda... that what is important is that the Bolivarian Revolution gloriously continues on...