Protecting Venezuelan Healthcare Workers
SEATTLE, Washington A New York Times 2016 photojournalistic article about Venezuelan hospitals showed that the Venezuelan crisis had reached beyond the political turmoil, the economic downturn and social uprisings; people were dying in hospitals from preventable diseases. Every year since, the IMF has only calculated negative GDP growth in Venezuela. According to the Global Health Security Index, Venezuela ranks among the least prepared countries in the world to face the current pandemic, placing last in the Latin American and Caribbean region. However, a group of healthcare students started XXV Promo MedUCLA to help Venezuelan healthcare workers.
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