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Venezuela's hospitals, eat at your own risk
| "I eat whatever they give me," Lopez said as she waves away flies buzzing over a plate of rice and lentils at University Hospital in Caracas. It is pretty flavorless stuff as the hospital is out of salt.
An excess of starch causes her blood sugar levels to shoot up.
Even if she were out of the hospital, she could not afford, say, a kilo (2.2 pounds) of chicken, which costs 1.5 times her monthly salary in this oil-rich but economically ravaged country saddled with runaway inflation.
| Lopez says that for breakfast, she gets a kind of cornmeal patty known here as an arepa, and for lunch, it's either pasta or lentils with rice.
"In the evening, they serve you another arepa – a small, skimpy one," said Lopez.
Back in better times, this hospital used to have different cooks for different medical problems, said nutritionist Gladys Abreu.
| Now, everybody gets the same fare, and not much of it: 40 grams of rice and 25 grams of legumes.
"That is hardly enough for a small child," said one staffer in the hospital kitchen.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/venezuelas-hospitals-eat-your-own-risk-doc-1869e91
| Maduro diet is working
| Venezuela is so fucked up right now. And all this shit happened from day to night, it's fucking scary.
| Socialism at its fullest.
| I mean this sort of things is nothing new. People simply choose to close their eyes to it. And have the right to do so
| It makes it easy when you have a relatively small population.
| >>384125 I may genuinely not know what I'm talking about in this case but it hits you harder when a developed country goes through this than a third world country since you kinda expect it, but Venezuela seemed nice enough just a few years ago. I can barely imagine what it's like so it's basically nightmare fuel for a first worlder like me. I feel like pure dread from a simple cold and over there people are slowly dying despite getting help!
| >>384103 socialism is socialism, and this is not it. this is a long term consequence of the combination of, but not limited to, capitalism, imperialism, and racism. countries that are run by rampant dictators (philippines, venezuela, n. Korea, etc) got that way by being destabilized through years of institutional implementation of those ideologies while power was seized by tyrants w/ everything in a state of fear. that's fascism, the furthest anything can get from socialism.
| Get back to the topic of the thread, which is Venezuela having bad hospitals.
| >>384596 u know what i forgot that we don't know much about N.K. apart from the little that reached the mainstream news so my bad, but despite that it seems a lot like a militaristic state run by a dictator desperate for power. sounds like some other very dangerous, very militaristic, volatile country thought, doesn't it?
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| 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.
Take Carla Lopez, 40, who has been hospitalized for three months to treat open wounds on her foot as a result of diabetes.
Lopez should go easy on pasta and rice – but that's all she gets.