Venezuelan healthcare in collapse as economy ails
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34983075
Worst in the world
Plenty of countries have damaged or failing health systems. Few are like the Venezuelan.
This country, which holds parliamentary elections on Sunday, has oil reserves exceeding Saudi Arabia's.
That natural wealth provided hundreds of billions of dollars of export earnings for Hugo Chavez, the man who, for 14 years until his death in 2013, ushered in and then presided over a radical left Bolivarian Republic.
Under his successor, Nicolas Maduro's rule, though, the oil price has cratered. The IMF forecasts the country's economy will contract 10% this year, 6% next.
Those are the worst figures in the world, excluding Syria, and there's no data for Syria.
Actually, there's no official data from within Venezuela, because the Central Bank has stopped reporting its own economic figures.
So we have to rely on the IMF's estimate that inflation in Venezuela will be 159% this year and 204% next year. They are also the worst figures in the world.
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