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Staff have to club together to repair equipment. We re like MacGyver, mending everything, joked the doctor in reference to the ingenious 1980s television character.
Unions have asked for university salaries to be paid in dollars but to no avail. We ve written to the State, the United Nations, we ve been to many entities, said Chaira Moreno, a unionist who works in the hospital s administration.
She s hung lists of her demands in her dingy office but the hospital director Jairo Silva told her he d run out of money.
Some people still remember what Venezuela was like before the economic rot set in over the last decade.
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A painting of José Gregorio Hernández is displayed by the main door at the Church of Colegio La Salle in Caracas, Venezuela, April 28, 2021, during preparations for his April 30 beatification. (CNS photo/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, Reuters)
When Venezuelans get sick it is typical for us to ask José Gregorio Hernández to intercede for us. From our youngest days, we are told about how this good and generous doctor showed special care for the poorest in our society. More than four million people have been forced to emigrate from Venezuela since the socialist-inspired revolution in 1999, escaping the precarious conditions induced by years-long political, economic and social strife. I left in 1994. Dr. Hernández is an integral part of the good I remember of my native land.