THE MALNUTRITION THAT KILLS IN VENEZUELA

Hello Steemians, today I come with a post not so funny or eloquent.

For some time, last year to be a little more precise I have noticed how there are so many children with serious malnutrition in Venezuela and I have confirmed it with every day that I go to my classes in the Hospital where I study.

In this there is not only a shortage of medicines and unhealthy conditions ... which would be another issue to talk about. But also the serious situation that has affected especially the smallest and innocent that increases with increasing force.

 Our children, whose parents, some because of negligence, others because they have nothing to offer (even they have lost a lot of weight) are suffering because of a government that does not want to ask for humanitarian aid, just for appearances. For making believe that socialism in our country and the legacy of former President Hugo Chávez, was the best thing that could happen to us. When it is NOT like this

The situation in this country is increasingly difficult, every day there are more people eating from garbage and children dying in hospitals or their own homes for not having anything to eat.

It is unfair that the most innocent suffer for politicians who do not care about anything or anyone but themselves and their benefits.

During the last months I have been reading several articles that really are very sad but real.

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Today I bring you to show you the reality and to be the voice of this grave situation.

Report Report 21 - Venezuela has 11% child malnutrition - May 29, 2017

"Venezuela registered 11.4% of child malnutrition until last April, which includes serious cases of minors who have lost close to 60% of weight, which implies a situation of" crisis "according to parameters of the World Health Organization (WHO). ) "

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Report Report 21 - Malnutrition and infant mortality advance dangerously in Venezuela - June 28, 2017.

"The government of President Nicolás Maduro, who along with that of his predecessor Hugo Chávez has raised dozens of clinics and hospitals in the last two decades, denies that the country is going through a crisis in his health system and alleges that the shortage of supplies is due to an "economic war" of its political adversaries. "

"For the first time in decades, doctors have reported national cases of marasmus, a type of malnutrition due to energy deficiency, and pellagra, a disease caused by inadequate intake or absorption of vitamin B."

"In the J.M. de los Ríos, children hospitalized for malnutrition so far this year have already doubled the number of cases attended throughout the past year," Raffalli said, according to his follow-up with colleagues there. "

"He's 9 months old and he's like a 2-month-old child, weighing 5 kilos," said Marisela Huertas, 39, stroking her little Oscar, who in addition to malnutrition is fighting pneumonia, macrocephaly and severe calcium loss. "They told me to give him milk, but as the situation is, I can not get it," he added in the hospital, where they do not have any feedback or serum formulas either.

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El Impulso Report - From 54% to 68% increased child malnutrition in Venezuela- September 21, 2017

"The study of this NGO linked to the Catholic Church indicates that the total proportion of children under the age of five, with" nutritional deficit in some form ", increased from 54% in April to 68% last August."

In some cases the problems occur almost from birth. "We have seen children under six months weighing three kilos, which should weigh at birth," said Graterol.

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Report Report 21 - Cáritas warns of increased child malnutrition in Venezuela - November 23, 2017

"Janeth Fernandez, national director of Cáritas, warned that the risk of malnutrition in children from 0 to 5 years of age went from 8% to 14.5%, reported La Verdad de Vargas." 

"According to the World Health Organization ( WHO), if malnutrition figures reach 15%, it is classified as a food emergency. "

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Report of El Nacional - The Whips of Hunger in Venezuela - December 06, 2017

"Susana Raffalli warns that 33% of the child population already has growth retardation: both physical and mental damage"

"With the passing of months, cases of malnutrition in Venezuela are replicated in all states of the country and the increase seems to be unstoppable"

"The doctor indicated that not only do they register cases of infants with poor nutrition, but also of their parents, who have had to stop eating to give what little they have to their children."

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The New York Times Report - As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger - December 17, 2017

"For five months, The New York Times followed twenty-one public hospitals where doctors said they saw record numbers of severely malnourished children, hundreds of whom have died."

"Hunger has stalked Venezuela for years, but now, according to doctors in public hospitals, it is taking an alarming amount of lives of minors."

"Children are arriving with very precarious conditions of malnutrition," said Dr. Huníades Urbina Medina, president of the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Pediatrics.

"There are times when you die in your hands from dehydration," said Dr. Milagros Hernández in the emergency room of a children's hospital in the city of Barquisimeto. The hospital, Hernandez said, saw a pronounced increase in people with malnutrition by the end of 2016. "But 2017 has been a terrible increase in malnourished patients," he said. "Of children who arrive to you infant and have the weight and size of a newborn".

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After all these reports I get the tears of only seeing so many children dying every day because of the severe malnutrition that attacks them. It is important to be that everyone knows this reality and we echo this message. If we all come together, we can help.

It is very important for me to share this story with you and take this information outside of the borders. I really recommend reading the latest report from the New York Times. Is very complete.

See you soon guys.

I await your comments.