NPR: Venezuela's Health Care System Ready To Collapse Amid Economic Crisis
The death of a former major league baseball player in his native Venezuela this week is renewing concerns over the Latin American country's growing health crisis amid ongoing economic and political turmoil.
Marcos Carvajal, a 34-year-old former pitcher for the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins, died of pneumonia on Tuesday. He fell sick in December, but the antibiotics needed to treat the illness were hard to find. Drugs for Carvajal eventually were sent from abroad but he relapsed, returned to the hospital on Monday and died the next day.
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WNU Editor: What is even more astounding is that the Venezuelan government is apparently blocking shipments of medical aid from NGOs .... as well as refusing all other aid. What can I say ..... you just cannot make this stuff up.
