A woman receives medical treatment at the Jose Gregorio Hernandez hospital in the slum of Catia in Caracas, Venezuela November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello
CARACAS (Reuters) - After a woman died while connected to a respirator at a hospital in central Venezuela last month, one of her relatives punched the attending doctor in the chest, blaming her for the woman's death.
"They think when there's no equipment or antibiotics that it's the doctor's fault," said the doctor at the Hospital Central in Maracay, 130 kilometres (80 miles) west of the capital Caracas. She requested anonymity for fear of reprisals.
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