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In Venezuela's hospitals, eat at your own risk
AFP ^ | August 8, 2018 | Juan BARRETO

Posted on 08/08/2018 5:37:36 AM PDT by CodeJockey

Hardly anybody likes hospital food but in Venezuela, it's so awful -- monotonous, starchy diets cooked in filthy conditions, and newborns fed intravenous solution for lack of baby formula -- that experts call it an actual health risk.

(Excerpt) Read more at afp.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; cryptocurrenct; cryptocurrency; food; hospital; iran; petro; venezuela
It's Socialism. What would you expect?

The article lays out some nasty conditions.

1 posted on 08/08/2018 5:37:36 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: CodeJockey

That was true in the Soviet Union, too. Patients were expected to wash their own bedding in the bucket of dirty water left st the foot of their beds. Doctors made house calls, but they re-used equipment like catheters and syringes. There was a huge black market in medical supplies, because people would do whatever they could to avoid Soviet hospitals.


2 posted on 08/08/2018 5:42:30 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (".... and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed." Acts 13:48)
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To: CodeJockey

I thought that was true with hospitals in general. ;)


3 posted on 08/08/2018 5:44:38 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: CodeJockey

Well, obviously a visit from Bernie Sanders and his acolytes would show them the light and all would be just fine...


4 posted on 08/08/2018 5:47:09 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Pining_4_TX

There was a huge black market in medical supplies, because people would do whatever they could to avoid Soviet hospitals.

...

But they had universal healthcare, the holy grail of crooked Democrats.


5 posted on 08/08/2018 5:48:10 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: CodeJockey

The joys of Marxist Medicine.


6 posted on 08/08/2018 5:49:33 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!)
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To: Moonman62

England also has Universal Health Care. Anyone aware of general conditions there? I can hardly wait.
All here demanding Universal Health Calamity should be made to live under it for an educational period.


7 posted on 08/08/2018 6:18:33 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( N.Y. Times--We print the news as it fits our views)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Also, they had no aspirin or acetominiprin

We sent a man to Russia after it opened up. Before the second trip, we bought large containers of Tylenol and split them into baggied of ten tablets. The gifts opened doors everywhere.

They also had no panty hose. Panty hose also opened doors


8 posted on 08/08/2018 6:44:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Sanctuary is Sedition)
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To: CodeJockey

But it’s FREEEEEEEEEE!


9 posted on 08/08/2018 6:52:21 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: CodeJockey

Is it against the Law to grow food ? LOL


10 posted on 08/08/2018 6:55:53 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: cuban leaf
I thought that was true with hospitals in general. ;)

This is true in the best run hospital(I've been in more of my share)but the food is generally bad tasting but as a whole it won't kill ya. I believe they do this to "inspire' you to leave the hospital. ASAP.
11 posted on 08/08/2018 7:12:24 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn'tÂ’t.")
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To: bert
They also had no panty hose. Panty hose also opened doors

Back in WW2 I've heard stories that a pack of American cigarettes and a chocolate bar would open a few "female doors", too.
12 posted on 08/08/2018 7:16:41 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn'tÂ’t.")
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To: RedMonqey

I had two hospital stays recently.

On a liquid diet, the liquids were good. They included ice cream

On a solid diet, the food was also good. I was fed what I ordered from the offered menu


13 posted on 08/08/2018 7:23:08 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Sanctuary is Sedition)
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My last “visit” I had the poor little nurses(who were outstanding and I appreciated them very much)running back and forth to the freezer for ice cream and pop siciles. Just couldn’t stomach anything else. (Stomach problems)

The nursing staff, bless their hearts were very professional and did all they could.(can’t say that about my doctors(spit)
After I left I sent the nurses a flower arrangement and a package of goodies.


14 posted on 08/08/2018 7:36:25 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn'tÂ’t.")
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To: bert

My brother tells a story about a bunch of wives of Soviet representatives rushing street vendors who were selling athletic socks. It was as if they had struck gold.


15 posted on 08/08/2018 2:42:14 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (".... and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed." Acts 13:48)
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To: CodeJockey

theres something to eat ???

I would have thought it would be ‘bring your own food’ there


16 posted on 08/08/2018 5:10:06 PM PDT by elbook
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To: CodeJockey

His REAL name is Nicholas Manure-o.


17 posted on 08/21/2018 2:46:26 PM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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