Pregnant women wait for their turn to be attended at a maternity hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela June 17, 2015. REUTERS/Isaac Urrutia
MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Her belly bulging, Hilda Angarita hauls herself to five different drug stores in the sweltering Venezuelan city of Maracaibo until she finally finds post-cesarean patches.
"I'm giving birth tomorrow and here I am in the street. I want to go home," says the teacher, 37, fanning herself as she rests on a bench the day before her scheduled delivery.
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