As hospitals saturate, earthquakes lay bare frailty of Venezuela's health system

One week after Venezuela's most powerful earthquake in over a century, the country's already fragile health system is on the brink of collapse. The quake killed more than two thousand people and injured over eleven thousand, according to France 24. In the capital, nine of twenty-one hospitals and clinics were severely or critically damaged. With food shortages mounting and epidemics a real threat, the disaster has exposed just how vulnerable Venezuela's healthcare infrastructure remains. Doctors and nurses are now scrambling to treat thousands of injured with a system that was already struggling before the ground shook.

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