no problem, ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)
Posted on 12/18/2017 9:27:11 AM PST by grundle
For a detailed explanation of how Venezuela went from being a rich well fed country, to a poor country with severe shortages of food, please see this previous blog post that I wrote, which is called “Here’s how most Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in 2016, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again in 2017.”
Now the the latest news.
The New York Times just published this article about the situation in Venezuela.
According to the article, even though large numbers of babies and children are starving to death, the government is telling doctors and hospitals not to list starvation as the official cause of death.
In addition, the Times kept track of 21 pubic hospitals over a period of five months. During that time period, the Times was unable to get any kind of official starvation counts from any of those hospitals. However, doctors at nine of those hospitals told the Timed that they had kept at least a partial count, and that of these partial counts at nine hospitals, nearly 400 children had starved to death. The cause of these deaths was not listed as starvation in the hospitals’ official records, but the doctors know that starvation was their true cause of death.
The Times also reports that the food shortages are so severe that even most hospitals do not have enough baby formula to meet the needs of their patients.
And it’s not just food that’s in short supply. The Times also reports that many of these hospitals don’t have enough of basic supplies such as soap, syringes, gauze, diapers, and latex gloves.
Please keep in mind that before Hugo Chavez implemented price controls and seized farms, factories, businesses, and other private property, the country was quite affluent and had a first world standard of living.
There’s a huge lesson in all of this.
No matter how well off and prosperous a country is, it simply cannot maintain anything even remotely close to such levels of prosperity when it adopts communism.
no problem, ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)
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.
Typical LIB lunatic resolution technique.
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.
well, there’s always the ever-popular cause of death known as “heart failure”.
You can always cite malnutrition rather than starvation. Or perhaps dietary paucity.
The decease’s body ate itself til there was no more.
New weight loss program advertised on late night TV, move to Venezuela! Tropical paradise and guaranteed to lose weight.
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