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In this way, despairing family members of

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the patients at Dr. Enrique Tejera Hospital,

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known as the main hospital in Valencia,

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claim that there is not only a current lack of medical supplies and equipment,

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but also a lack of good infrastructure and basic services.

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One of the nurses had to use her own mouth to help a little girl breathe

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because she was dying from pulmonary aspiration,

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because there was no electricity,

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there was no electricity to respirate the child.

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There's no water.

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The bathroom sewers are dumped out.

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There aren't any monitors.

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Two little girls died upstairs for the lack of monitors,

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for a lack of everything.

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There's nothing.

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The dressings, everything, everything, the adhesive,

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they ask for everything.

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It's not even food they're giving to the kids.

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It's pure rice with milk, all day long.

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Here in the hospital, there's nothing.

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The children are dying because

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they don't have medication.

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There's no medication, there's nothing.

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They ask me for gloves, for dressing,

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they ask me for gauze, they ask me for everything,

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absolutely everything for my daughter.

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We're waiting for what?

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For our children to die because there aren't supplies here?

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We can't take this any longer.

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They demand that the Venezuelan government

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urgently attend to the necessities of the health sector

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which remain in crisis.

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From the State of Carabobo, El Pitazo.

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Ruth Lara Castillo