Hospitals scrap surgeries, Venezuelans forgo showers as taps run dry


  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Aug 2018

A woman carries a container filled with water coming from a mountain, in a road at Plan de Manzano slum in Caracas, Venezuela July 20, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello

CARACAS (Reuters) - At one of Caracas' biggest public hospitals, most bathrooms are closed. Patients fill jugs from a tiny tap on the ground floor that sometimes has a trickle of water. Operations are postponed or cancelled.

The Central Venezuelan University hospital, once a Latin American leader, is reeling as taps run dry.

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