Now, it is killing the nation’s children at an alarming rate, doctors in the country’s public hospitals say. “Children are arriving with very precarious conditions of malnutrition,” said Dr. Huníades Urbina Medina, the president of the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Pediatrics. They encountered nearly 2,800 cases of child malnutrition in the last year alone, with starving children regularly brought to emergency rooms. Sometimes the state steps in, taking away children from some homes where hunger is common. The burden of caring for children in Venezuela can be so great these days that many women are opting to be sterilized.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2017 05:03 UTC