Venezuela earthquake: Hospitals overwhelmed as disease risk grows in shelters
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A week after earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, hospitals in La Guaira, Caracas, and Miranda are overwhelmed and in urgent need of external assistance. A PAHO assessment found all eight health facilities reviewed require immediate help, with three suffering structural damage. The Vargas-IVSS hospital is critically overcrowded — 96 patients in an 8-bed ward — with a non-functional morgue, depleted blood bank, and inoperable ventilators due to power outages. With 2,295 deaths, 11,267 injuries, and 12,841 displaced, the risk of disease outbreaks in shelters is rising rapidly.
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· 3 pulledAll eight health facilities it reviewed in La Guaira, Caracas and Miranda need immediate outside help.
96 patients are crammed into a ward built for eight beds.
Both ventilators in the trauma unit are out of action for lack of power.
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