Inside Venezuelas Psychiatric Hospital Patients Are Left In Cells Covered In Feces And Roaches

(The Sun) Patrick Knox Aug 8 2019 1:22 Hospital services across the stricken socialist South American nation are going through a widespread crisis amid a shortage of medicine and the low salaries of doctors and nurses who depend on the state. Rooms at the 126 year-old Caracas Psychiatric Hospital are filthy. Bunks are not even labelled with the patients names. Cockroaches and other insects can be seen crawling the walls creeping into patients and nurses beds. An absence of maintenance personnel means garbage human excrement and dead insects build up in rooms bathrooms and courtyards of the sprawling sanatorium. The crisis at the hospital has become part of a public debate in a country that has been shaken by the biggest political and economic crisis in its modern history. The largest wing in this hospital from hell has been without power for 20 months. Blackouts are common across the country even though it has massive oil reserves.