Posted on 08/19/2015 3:38:55 PM PDT by grundle
Newly-minted parents at Venezuela’s Dr. Luis Razetti Hospital in Anzoátegui are denouncing its maternity ward for killing 17 babies in a week, the victims of sanitation so poor the ward is overtly inhabited by a swarm of opossums.
One relative of a dead newborn told El Tiempo that, upon challenging hospital officials regarding the opossums, she was told “the appearance of possums is something normal in the hospital..."
... the reason opossums are so common, says one employee at the hospital, is that sanitation employees have run out of cleaning liquids and necessary maintenance items, leaving them impotent in the face of the filth consuming the hospital.
... nearly every kind of necessary medical supply was running out, from needles to bandages to drugs. By the next year, doctors were reporting a surge in the number of amputations at hospitals, as those injured began developing infections that doctors did not have sufficient antibiotics to suppress...
70 percent of Venezuelan pharmacies were struggling to keep stocked with basic drugs... The Venezuelan government, which controls all medical care in the country, at the time owed $4 billion to drug companies and had no way of paying the debt back, leaving pharmacies understocked.
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Heh. Good find! - Wonder how long it took “Dan” to figure it out ... -)
What? Government run health care doesn’t work?
Then there was one that got into my back yard with the BIG DOGS! It was killed outright, and I do mean DEAD! That night the younger dog chewed it up and swallowed it.
Maybe socialist idiot Chavez’s oldest daughter can take some of her $2,000,000,000 wealth and help these people.
Archbishop José O. Gomez of Los Angeles says that bringing more tens of million of aliens into the U.S. from Central and South America will revitalize the soul of America, which is cold and heartless because America still has a white majority—people too emotionally stunted to appreciate opossums in the maternity ward.
More like they’ve ‘doubled down’ on the ‘hope and change’ if you ask me...
Yeah. Dogs aren’t too choosy about what kinds of animals they chew on. - Many years ago, when my mother was a poor Appalachian girl with lots of brothers & sisters; her brothers would eat possum stew. They hunted a lot. I don’t think she would eat it, even though they were practically starving at times.
Lol...I live in rural Texas and have a few close encounters with possums..
When I was in high school, I hunted anything in season. When I killed an opossum, it was always living off a farmer's crops. And they always tasted great. They tasted very much like raccoon, but the fat was greasier (kind of like the difference between beef fat and pig fat).
Think about it, since the deer, raccoons, and opossums were living off of farm crops (soy beans, corn, beans, etc...), they were eating better than the best beef cows.
Crystal ball look at OBCare ten years from now.
Vet said possums carry a virus that kills horses. The possum eats what is left in the food trough. The saliva is then consumed by horses eating from the same trough. There is no treatment.
I trapped two of them on consecutive nights last winter and hauled them far away for release.
A PETA type told me I probably killed their nest of babies by taking the parents. She didn’t like my reply of “at least I won’t have to worry about trapping them too”.
it’s a BS story IMO.
Poor babies. RIP.
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