Ven hospital announces suspension of food service to patients

[Bacchus4.0]

https://twitter.com/paraujo52/status/362952746682425344/photo/1


Families of patients are expected to take the appropriate measures. See announcement.

[SummerSnow]

1. No habla Espanol

[Bacchus4.0]

2. it says for lack of supplies, the hospital will not provide food service to patients

their families will have to provide food.

[Socialistlemur]

3. It's an internal memo within a hospital

I don't know if the source is genuine, it's a twitter link, showing a scan of a memorandum at a hospital, Jose Gregorio Hernandez. I called a Venezuelan doctor and the hospital is in Caracas in Libertador, it services mostly poor to very poor people. The md I called isn't living in Venezuela, so I can't confirm this is going on. However not too long ago I donated money to help a poor family purchase the medicines and equipment needed for a complex operation at a public hospital. It appears they still have some staff but the hospital isn't funded to provide what they need so patients are expected to collect money from friends, family or charity to get operated. I have been donating money for different causes in Venezuela for quite a few years, and I don't think the current situation is that unusual, it seems the government really neglected public health at the hospital level and tried to create a parallel system using Cubans. I see that scheme as mostly one to deliver preventive medicine, some triage, and a way to funnel cash to Cuba, because those Cuban services sure are expensive from what I gather.