Posted on 11/06/2013 11:01:00 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) -- Evelina Gonzalez was supposed to undergo cancer surgery in July following chemotherapy but wound up shuttling from hospital to hospital in search of an available operating table. On the crest of her left breast, a mocha-colored tumor doubled in size and now bulges through her white spandex tank top.
Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of Venezuela's biggest medical facilities, Maracay's Central Hospital. But like legions of the sick across the country, she's been neglected by a health care system doctors say is collapsing after years of deterioration.
Doctors at the hospital sent home 300 cancer patients last month when supply shortages and overtaxed equipment made it impossible for them to perform non-emergency surgeries.
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Hugo’s Revenge.
Sad, the folks I met there years ago were no different than you or I.
Maybe it is a sign of the times .. Ass regimes crumble, so do their visons
Coming to a hospital near you..VERY VERY SOON..which is exactly what Obama and his cronies want..Death Panels await
Soon coming to a KommieKare hospital near you.
Not immediately, or even in the medium term. The US is a wealthy country and the end result of Obama care will look more like the dysfunctional national health care system in Britain than the non functional third world system in Venezuela.
This can’t be happening, I heard they have those great
Cuban doctors... /s
Fixed it.
Ship their doctors here, and put them in Obamacare exchanges. What could go wrong?
Yeah dont ya know, whenever someone gets sick I always hear them day “I am taking the next flight to Cuba for that kick ass health care” LOL
Maybe some of their convicted felons can become Navigators, Sebelius said even murderers can be Navigators, what could possibly go wrong
Chavez had to keep going back and forth to Cuba. That says a lot about the quality of health care in Venezuela.
Some people will never learn.
Gonzalez says she adored Chavez for his anti-poverty programs, always voted for him and constantly applied for government benefits, though she never received any.
She has a good chance of survival if she gets the right care, Gutierrez said.
But that’s not happening.
“I’ve got nowhere else to turn,” Gonzalez says.
Something to look forward to.
This is what happens when Government decides that doctors should be paid less than firemen or politicians.
Idiot Libs will never understand scarcity drives success and desire.
Welcome to Russia, Komrade!
“...non functional third world system in Venezuela.”
When I first visited Caracas I was shocked because I had only been to Central American countries. Pre-Chavez Venezuela was ultra-modern with the latest high-tech subway, modern glass skyscrappers everywhere, and an atmosphere of MONEY.
About 20 years ago my father said that “there are now more neurosurgeons in Caracas, Venezuela than there were in the whole world back when I became one.” Venezuela had wealth, and class in those days. Washington, DC seemed more 3rd world than Caracas.
“Nowhere else to turn?” What about the new Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness?
Castro sent them lots of “barefoot” doctors, med students
really. I want my doctor to wear shoes...
constantly applied for government benefits, though she never received any.
Hello. Hello.
Anyone in there?
I guess not.
Half the public health system’s doctors quit under Oba...I mean Chavez, and half of those moved abroad,
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