Ugggggggh.
In a hospital in Venezuela’s western city of Maracaibo, chronic water shortages have left staff using paint buckets as toilets. With medical gloves in short supply, workers use the same pair on multiple patients.
Years of recession, hyperinflation, and underinvestment in public services have left Venezuela in poor condition to confront any cases of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly worldwide. Its hospitals suffer from chronic shortages of medicine and supplies, as well as frequent lapses in electricity and running water.
Residents say a lack of access to water or affordable soap can make basic hygiene practices - needed to guard against the spread of the virus - out of reach for many.
“I am very concerned that in Venezuela there are no supplies, medicines, or even water in hospitals or homes,” said Josefina Moreno, a 50-year-old university professor with a history of respiratory disease. “The prevention measures that everyone is talking about are hard to comply with here.”
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-venezuela/buckets-for-toilets-recycled-gloves-venezuelan-hospitals-await-coronavirus-unprepared-idUSKBN20X2F1)
These poor people.
Their government failed them.
And now, corona is likely going to devastate them.
Lord God, I pray right now for these troubling situations in Venezuela and in other parts of the globe. Please extend your grace & mercy to these beloved humans as they face corona sorely deficient in many of the things that we take for granted here in the U.S. To us, a bottle of hand-sanitizer is a buck at Dollar Tree and in limitless supply. To these impoverished folks, that bottle of sanitizer would be such a prized commodity..... quite possibly, a lifesaver. I have no way of knowing how to help these folks from my position here in Central Illinois, but I trust you and your hand working through relief agencies and medical professionals to provide care and compassion to those in Venezuela and beyond. Give them peace, give them hope, give them healing. Amen.
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt
In a hospital in Venezuela’s western city of Maracaibo, chronic water shortages have left staff using paint buckets as toilets. With medical gloves in short supply, workers use the same pair on multiple patients.
Years of recession, hyperinflation, and underinvestment in public services have left Venezuela in poor condition to confront any cases of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly worldwide. Its hospitals suffer from chronic shortages of medicine and supplies, as well as frequent lapses in electricity and running water.
Residents say a lack of access to water or affordable soap can make basic hygiene practices - needed to guard against the spread of the virus - out of reach for many.
“I am very concerned that in Venezuela there are no supplies, medicines, or even water in hospitals or homes,” said Josefina Moreno, a 50-year-old university professor with a history of respiratory disease. “The prevention measures that everyone is talking about are hard to comply with here.”
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-venezuela/buckets-for-toilets-recycled-gloves-venezuelan-hospitals-await-coronavirus-unprepared-idUSKBN20X2F1)
These poor people.
Their government failed them.
And now, corona is likely going to devastate them.
Lord God, I pray right now for these troubling situations in Venezuela and in other parts of the globe. Please extend your grace & mercy to these beloved humans as they face corona sorely deficient in many of the things that we take for granted here in the U.S. To us, a bottle of hand-sanitizer is a buck at Dollar Tree and in limitless supply. To these impoverished folks, that bottle of sanitizer would be such a prized commodity..... quite possibly, a lifesaver. I have no way of knowing how to help these folks from my position here in Central Illinois, but I trust you and your hand working through relief agencies and medical professionals to provide care and compassion to those in Venezuela and beyond. Give them peace, give them hope, give them healing. Amen.
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt