A close family member recently gave birth a month prematurely. After a couple days of struggling with breathing issues the baby was airlifted to a nearby critical-care neo-natal unit where her condition almost immediately began to improve. Thankfully, she was home a week later and is doing well 
We’re all the more grateful that she was born in the country that still (despite the damage done by Obamacare) provides the best medical care in the world. Tragically, babies in the socialist paradise of Venezuela aren’t so fortunate ~ Images of newborn babies in cardboard boxes in Venezuela hospital shock the world ~
The photos were taken at the Domingo Guzman Lander hospital in Barcelona, in the northeastern state of Anzoategui, and leaked by a doctor who asked to remained anonymous to avoid possible retributions. The doctor reached out to an opposition lawmaker, Manuel Ferreira, who posted them on his Twitter account for the world to see.
“The babies spent all night in the cardboard boxes until the pictures were made public,” Congressman Manuel Ferreira told Fox News Latino on Thursday morning. “After that they discharged the babies to avoid further exposure.”
Ferreira added that the babies sleeping in cardboard boxes is just one instance of the demise of health care within Venezuela’s hospitals.
“This week we had 15 cases of newborn deaths here in Anzoategui’s Razetti hospital,” he told FNL. “Mothers are not fed properly and babies are born really weak. On top of that, the shortage of medicines and vaccines creates a mortal situation that is like a death cocktail.”
Everything from common painkillers to cancer and HIV drugs have become almost impossible to find across the country and some doctors have resorted to using veterinary medications in lieu of human ones — according to the Pharmaceutical Federation, the shortage of medicines is more than 80 percent.
The article goes on to incorrectly attribute Venezuela’s desperate situation to the drop in oil prices over the last few years. I’ve blogged about the beleaguered country several times; it’s not the oil – it’s the socialism ~
Before Chavez, Venezuela was a successful petro-state with a significant middle class and stable economics. Then Chavez created a command economy, expropriated private property, and ruled by whim for most of his term as president/dictator. He managed that through brute force and a cult of personality, but his successor (Nicolas Maduro) only has brute force to use.
Source: Hot Air
When even an average U.S. hospital isn’t able to provide the specialized care that preemies require, the precious little things don’t stand a chance in Venezuela. Socialism kills.
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No drugs? We’ll try BLACK MAGIC: Desperate Venezuelans turn to ritual slaughter to save sick relatives as failing economy leaves hospitals with empty shelves and no medicine ~ Story from the UK Daily Mail two weeks ago ~
• Venezuelans are turning to black magic in an attempt to treat sick relatives
• Comes as growing shortages intensify in the failing Left-wing country
• Hospitals have run out of drugs to treat patients as well as other supplies
• Rituals include sacrificing birds and making desperate offerings to Gods
• Shamans, herbalist, witches and priests cash in on people’s fears
