Venezuelan government tells doctors and hospitals not to list starvation as cause of death

wordpress ^ | December 18, 2017 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[Chode]

no problem, ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)

[ArcadeQuarters]

Problem: Reports out of Venezuela say people are starving to death.

Solution:
> tells doctors and hospitals not to list starvation as cause of death

Problem solved.

[hal ogen]

Typical LIB lunatic resolution technique.

[USMCPOP]

I can buy rice or eggs and a number of other foodstuffs here in VA for 1/3 of the price in Venezuela. And I don’t have to stand in long lines outside.

[catnipman]

well, there’s always the ever-popular cause of death known as “heart failure”.

[OrangeHoof]

You can always cite malnutrition rather than starvation. Or perhaps dietary paucity.

[Billthedrill]

Tomorrow's headlines in the WaPo and New York Times: Maduro Ends Starvation In Venezuela! It's 1933 all over again.

[Renkluaf]

The decease’s body ate itself til there was no more.

[Joe Miner]

New weight loss program advertised on late night TV, move to Venezuela! Tropical paradise and guaranteed to lose weight.

[BethelPatriot]

This is the same trick the Soviet Union used in the early 1930's to explain the deaths in the Ukraine. Not starvation but an opportunistic disease which attacked a severely malnourished body.