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Venezuela shortages hit healthcare

There was a time when the Venezuelan hospital system was the pride of Latin America and when the University Hospital of Caracas was the jewel in that system. Tim Franks finds that has changed.

Picture shows Santiago, a child at the UHC with cancer, whose chemotherapy has stopped because the hospital has no drugs left to treat him. (Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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