The Cubanization of Venezuela: The collapse of health care in Venezuela

While there are still some who out of sheer ignorance or brazen shamelessness continue to tout the Castro dictatorship’s wonderful and free “universal health care” system, the realities of medical care in Cuba clearly show it barely approaches third-world status. However, for those who are neither uninformed enough nor impudent enough to tout Cuba’s atrocious health care but still have a warm place in their heart for the island’s repressive and murderous dictatorship, the next excuse is to blame U.S. sanctions against the Castro regime. It is a flagrantly fallacious argument, but since few will challenge them, they continually use it.

Enter Venezuela, the Castro dictatorship’s newest acquisition. Under the “leadership” of their puppet governor Nicolas Maduro, this Cuban colony has managed to become almost completely Cubanized in just a few short months. Implementing the same strategies in Venezuela as they have done in Cuba, the Castro dictatorship has driven the health care system in that country into the ground. Unfortunately for them, they have no “embargo” to blame for this destruction. And another unfortunate situation for Cuba’s Castro dictatorship and their sycophants brought about by this development is that it once again proves that the atrocious health care system in Cuba (and now in Venezuela) has nothing to do with “embargoes.” Instead, it has everything to do with corruption and mismanagement at the hands of the criminal and totalitarian Castro regime.

Via the AP:

Doctors say Venezuela’s health care in collapse

http://hosted.ap.org/photos/A/a8fe5524-231e-442a-a45f-d9a63e2d5185-small.jpgMARACAY, 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.

Driving the crisis in health care are the same forces that have left Venezuelans scrambling to find toilet paper, milk and automobile parts. Economists blame government mismanagement and currency controls set by the late President Hugo Chavez for inflation pushing 50 percent annually. The government controls the dollars needed to buy medical supplies and has simply not made enough available.

“I feel like I’ve been abandoned,” Gonzalez, 37, tells a bright-eyed hospital psychologist trying to boost her morale. Her right eye is swollen by glaucoma diagnosed two years ago but left untreated when she had trouble getting an appointment.

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