La fotógrafa Meridith Kohut se adentró hospitales de las ciudades de Mérida y Barcelona, Venezuela. Foto: Captura de pantalla
La fotógrafa Meridith Kohut, del New York Times, ha retratado la terrible crisis hospitalaria que azota a Venezuela.
En uno de los países con las reservas de petroleo más grandes del mundo, el estado se encuentra en una severa crisis, producto de una mala administración y de un sistemático boicot internacional e interno.
La falta de energía, la escasez de alimentos, la violencia creciente, la inflación galopante que los está llevando a romper récords. Todas las noticias que vienen de Venezuela, pintan la imagen de una sociedad en descomposición.
#Repost @nytimes with @repostapp. ・・・ After Julio Rafael Parucho suffered a serious head injury a year ago, doctors removed a quarter of his brain. But because of a shortage of doctors, Julio, 32, has had to wait a year for a follow-up operation. The economic crisis in Venezuela, where Julio lives, has exploded into a public health emergency. Luis Razetti Hospital, where @meridithkohut photographed Julio, is a battlefield clinic in a country where there is no war. Even among Venezuela’s failing hospitals, Luis Razetti has become one of the most notorious. For the past 2 and a half months, the hospital hasn’t had a way to print X-rays, so patients must use a smartphone to take a picture of their scans. Meanwhile, the pharmacy has bare shelves. When patients need treatment, doctors give relatives a list of medicines, solutions and other items to track down from black-market sellers.
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Esta fotógrafa ha retratado un aspecto desgarrador: el cáos y la decadencia en el sistema de salud. La fotógrafa se adentró hospitales de las ciudades de Mérida y Barcelona, para registrar el estado desolador en el que conviven médicos y pacientes por igual.
Ante la escasez de productos de primera necesidad, como agua y jabón, los doctores no pueden lavarse las manos y la camilla donde te operarán, está cubierta por capas de sangre marrón.
Los apagones de energía dejan a menudo sin electricidad a los respiradores de la guardia maternal, por lo cual la muerte de recién nacidos es algo habitual en estas ciudades. Los doctores a menudo intentan mantener a los bebés con vida, mediante respiración boca a boca.
Creative doctors rigged homemade devices using recycled soda bottles and water jugs as weights to treat patients with broken legs. Luís Razetti Hospital is one of the worst state-run, public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors compare it to working in a war zone – they regularly have to turn patients away, because they don’t have the majority of medicines or medical equipment and supplies needed to give them medical attention. When they do accept patients, they have to work with extremely limited resources, because they don’t have the supplies they need for things like X-Rays, and many exams nd operations. The hospital’s infrastructure is crumbling, and staff don’t have all the cleaning supplies required to keep the hospital sanitary. The hospital also suffers from weekly shortages of running water and electricity. In April, several babies died when a power outage turned off the incubators, and the hospital’s generator failed to work because of lack of maintenance. The same month, authorities found over 100 pieces of medical equipment, stolen from the hospital in the home of the assistant to the hospital’s director. Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, falling oil prices and wide-spread government corruption have pushed Venezuela into an economic crisis, with the highest inflation in the world and chronic shortages of food and medical supplies. Read our full story in The New York Times about the #health care #crisis in #Venezuela here: nyti.ms/27oUSrV
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Rosa Parucho, una señora de 68 años y diabética, estaba en su camilla de hospital, ojos en blanco, pies “negros como la noche”. A punto de morir por shock séptico. Todo porque la máquina que le debía hacer un diálisis renal, estaba descompuesta.
A menudo, las medicinas contra el cáncer solo se consiguen en el mercado negro. Encontrar todo tipo de medicamentos es un desafío, y muchos enfermos que padecen chagas o cáncer viven al día, dependiendo de un proveedor del mercado negro, o rogando que las reservas de su medicina no se terminen en el lugar que viven.
A menudo los pacientes duermen en el suelo y al no tener computadoras, muchos pacientes tienen que escanear los resultados de sus exámenes con sus teléfonos, y luego llevarlos a un doctor.
Jose Villarroel, waited covered in his own blood, for hours in the emergency operating room of Luís Razetti Hospital for doctors to operate on him after he was stabbed in the abdomen. The hospital doesn’t have the equipment to scan his abdomen, and told Mr. Villarroel that he would have to figure out a way to arrange for a private ambulance to take him to a private clinic. This is one of the worst state-run, public hospitals in #Venezuela. Doctors compare it to working in a war zone – they regularly have to turn patients away, because they don’t have the majority of medicines or medical equipment and supplies needed to give them medical attention. When they do accept patients, they have to work with extremely limited resources, because they don’t have the supplies they need for things like X-Rays, and many exams and operations. The hospital’s infrastructure is crumbling, and staff don’t have all the cleaning supplies required to keep the hospital sanitary. The hospital also suffers from weekly shortages of running water and electricity. In April, several babies died when a power outage turned off the incubators, and the hospital’s generator failed to work because of lack of maintenance. The same month, authorities found over 100 pieces of medical equipment, stolen from the hospital in the home of the assistant to the hospital’s director. Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, falling oil prices and wide-spread government corruption have pushed Venezuela into an economic crisis, with the highest inflation in the world and chronic shortages of food and medical supplies. Read our full story in The New York Times about the #healthcare #crisis in #Venezuela here: nyti.ms/27oUSrV
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Entre los casos más extremos está el hospital Luis Razetti de Barcelona. En abril las autoridades arrestaron a su director, acusado de robarse un equipo que iba dirigido al hospital.
Los pacientes se ven obligados a traer todos los insumos desde su casa, desde gasas hasta antibióticos y desinfectantes.