Venezuela: Patients dying as crisis hits hospitals [View all]

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/venezuela-hospitalseconomic-crisis-160530151128000.html

"Most of the time patients die because their families are out of the hospital looking for the treatments and they don't come at a time we can use the treatment," he told Al Jazeera.

"When they bring the treatment, the patient's already dying."

But, even buying the necessary medicine and equipment in time is not always enough to save a patient's life in Venezuela.


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"If the government decides to lift price controls and end the exchange rate control, the situation can get dramatically better very, very quickly," Gregory Wilpert, the author of Changing Venezuela By Taking Power, said. "Because in that case there will be no more incentive to smuggle products outside of the country or sell them on the black market."

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and Wilpert is a chavista.