Government
mismanagement and currency controls set by late Venezuelan president Hugo
Chavez are being blamed for a collapse of the country’s health care system. According to the Associated
Press, with the Venezuelan government controlling the dollars needed to
purchase medical supplies, medical care is becoming increasingly rare. Doctors
sent home cancer patients last month when supply shortages and overtaxed
equipment made it impossible for them to perform surgeries considered to be
“non-emergency” in nature.
“I feel like
I’ve been abandoned,” said Evelina Gonzalez, who was supposed to undergo cancer
surgery in July following chemotherapy. Gonzalez ended up moving around from
one hospital to another in search of an available operating table. Her left
breast showed a dark tumor – now doubled in size – bulging through her spandex
tank top. Gonzalez’ right eye is also swollen by glaucoma – diagnosed two years
ago – but left untreated because she could not obtain a doctor’s appointment.
Gonzalez is on a
list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have surgery to remove tumors at
one of Venezuela’s largest medical facilities, Maracay’s Central Hospital.
However, like many of the nation’s sick, she has been neglected by a health
care system that, according to doctors, is deteriorating into a final state of
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