Agony in Venezuela due to extreme shortage of medicines

In Venezuela there is a crisis in the area of ​​medicines and food, and our President sent 12 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba after the island was overwhelmed by the passage of the storm Alberto, it seems somewhat ironic, when much of the population requests that it open a humanitarian channel.

The town dies for lack of medication, the crisis in the health area is becoming stronger, painful images are shown in Venezuelan hospitals that are in total abandonment.

Today June 5, 2018 a woman with breast cancer in a state of metastasis went to the Ministry of Popular Power for Health to demand answers for chemotherapy treatments that need to which the Ministry did not answer them and did not even enter, This lady named Elizabeth Salazar was diagnosed with a metastatic carcinoma eight months ago, type 3. She has 10 chemotherapy delays, the treatments for cancer are totally depleted of the country, 31 drugs to fight against this disease are absent.

In this very strong image you can see the state of decomposition of the breast of Mrs. Elizabeth Salazar.

This disease in 2016 obtained figures of 51,945 cases of cancer and 25,674 Venezuelans died at the hands of this cruel disease.

In addition to cancer, many diseases that afflict Venezuelans, dialysis patients have also been affected, 32 of 129 dialysis units have closed their doors due to lack of supplies, this is at the national level, which will affect 15,000 patients at the national level. national. Francisco Valencia, president of the Coalition of Organizations for the Defense of the Right to Health and Life, reiterated that the NGO warned that this year would be devastating in terms of health, if urgent measures were not taken. "The government insists on affirming that nothing happens here and that it has the capacity to respond. The closure of the dialysis units is the example of the misfortune that we are experiencing. The government sentenced the chronic patients. "

Sick as Parkinson's have been without treatment for 9 months affecting 33,000 people suffering from this disease, these citizens in addition to not getting their medications, when they manage to locate them they have to have around 7,000,000.00 of Bolivares on hand and remember that a minimum salary of Venezuela is 1,000,000.00 Bolivares united with the food card would reach 2,555,500.00 Bolivares would have the sick person to buy food that would actually be nothing to survive in Venezuela.

HIV another one of the group of deadly diseases to which any type of medication is available in the country, total lack of antiretrovirals affects 77 thousand patients with HIV, among them 2,000 children carrying the disease, the shortage of medication It is 100%.

All this crisis of medicine joins the poor state of all health care centers, Hospitals that water services do not work, emergency areas totally abandoned, the area of ​​mortuaries with bodies in a state of putrefaction and cultivating diseases and infections harmful to health, the lack of attention in the health area by the National Government is serious. Venezuela demands, implora that they address this situation that affects more than 30 million Venezuelans