No more dialysis in Venezuela. 16,000 deaths pending

[GatoGordo]

Dialysis units paralyzed throughout the country: "16,000 people may die in the coming days"
DolarToday / Feb 1, 2018 @ 4:00 p.m.

Francisco Valencia, Director of Codevida and spokesperson for Transplanted Friends of Venezuela, denounced on Wednesday that 16,000 people may die in the coming days as the filters for dialysis were exhausted.

"16,000 people may die in the coming days in Venezuela. There is no way to dialyze them, "he told NTN24.

"We have an inhuman, vile government, which is not interested in the lives of Venezuelans," he said.

Twitter social network users assured that Chacao's Riverside hemodialysis unit in Caracas does not have filters for dialysis and their patients are returned for lack of this input.

https://dolartoday.com/urgente-se-paralizan-las-unidades-de-dialisis-en-todo-el-pais-16-000-personas-pueden-morir-en-los-proximos-dias/

[applegrove]

1. Horrific.

[democratisphere]

2. Air lift the damn things in. Where are the international rescue folks?

[COLGATE4]

3. The Venezuelan government has simplly turned a blind eye to

this and literally hundreds of other instances of the population suffering because of their gross mismanagement of the country's economy.

[sheshe2]

4. My hearts go out to the people in Venezuela.

Do not doubt for a moment that under tRump it will happen here as well.

[GatoGordo]

5. Maduro insists that there is no shortage. No hardships.

Maduro insists that Venezuela is the land of plenty, where there is no want or need. All of this hardship the world is hearing about Venezuela is CIA propaganda courtesy of his enemies in Colombia, Spain, Portugal, the rest of the EU, Canada, Mexico, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Guyana, Panama, Brasil, Panama and of course, the United States.

Air lifting anything into Venezuela would be exactly what Maduro would like. He would insist it would be a Yanqui Invasion (Chavez, now Maduro has been warning about the imminent invasion for over 18 years!) and would shoot a SAM up the tailpipe of any plane. Besides, his version of Brown Shirts (colectivos) would descend upon any airlifted supplies and sell them for a profit.

Maduro runs a pretty tidy ship. All profits come through him. The National Guard and the National Police (along with his colectivos) are not loyal to Venezuela. They are loyal to the Revolucion!

[GatoGordo]

6. More "propaganda"

Link to tweet

[GatoGordo]

7. More news

50 people in Lara have died from irregularities in dialysis
By: La Prensa (Diario de Lara) / Osman Rojas | Friday, 02/02/2018 11:45 AM

February 2, 2018.-

Alarming are the mortality figures in the state as far as renal patients are concerned. Statistics indicate that during the last semester of 2017 about 50 people died in the state. Intermittent dialysis is a determining factor to explain this phenomenon.

"When you see the drama that renal patients go through in Venezuela, you understand that what is left to the sick is to die, and clinically, these people should be dialyzed at least four hours a day, but in Lara, people in the best of cases they last two hours, "said Dr. Javier Castillo, a nephrologist.

The specialist says that on more than one occasion he has had to comfort some family member in the middle of dialysis. "You see people who are already in the terminal stage and you have to be honest with the relatives, I've seen patients in such bad condition that I wonder how they have done to get there," he confesses.

Luzmila Leal, an internist, also spoke about the conditions in which the sick are in the state and said that it is inhuman to have people who are torn between life and death begging for treatment. "What happens in Venezuela is not seen in another part of the world," lamented Leal.

https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n320512.html

Aporrea.org is a website devoted to the memory of Hugo Chavez and his legacy. For this website to offer this sort of commentary on Venezuela shows the depravity of what passes for Bolivarian Socialism.