The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela begins to be well known around the world.
Before the Venezuelan economy began to collapse, almost all cases of child malnutrition in public hospitals were due to negligence or parental abuse. But between 2015 and 2018, as the crisis intensified, cases of severe child malnutrition tripled in the medical centers of the capital, according to the doctors.
Many countries malnutrition at these levels would be if there is a war, a drought, some catastrophe or an earthquake, said Dr. Ingrid Soto de Sanabria, head of the Nutrition, Growth and Development Service of Children's Hospital J. M. de los Ríos. "But in our country it is directly related to scarcity and inflation."
The Venezuelan government has tried to cover up the extent of the crisis by enforcing a near-total blackout of health statistics, and by creating a culture in which doctors are often afraid to register cases and deaths that may be associated with the government’s failures.
Aware of the harsh Venezuelan situation, we have open a humanitarian channel from Europe to Venezuela in which we intend to send food and medicines regularly to different institutions and hospitals.
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