Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding its medical activities in Venezuela, where years of economic and political crisis are taking a heavy toll on people’s lives.
With hyperinflation reaching over two million percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, the situation in Venezuela has grown worse recently due to a power blackout that affected some regions for up to three months, on top of continuous water outages. “This has an impact on households and struggling health facilities countrywide. Hospitals and clinics in areas where MSF is present have long suffered from a lack of medical supplies and staff, and dysfunctional water and sanitation systems,” explains Tara Newell, MSF emergency support manager.