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Malaria back with a vengeance in crisis-hit Venezuela
May 25, 2019
By ANDRE TOSTA
CARACAS - If it weren't for the Center for Malaria Studies in Caracas, Francelis Pacheco would have been unable to get treatment for a disease she has contracted around 20 times.
Pacheco, 25, sells clothes and cigars in the claustrophobic tunnels of gold mines in southern Venezuela's Bolivar state, where a type of malaria-carrying mosquito is particularly active.
"If it weren't for (treatment) here, honestly I don't know what I would have done," Pacheco told AFP as she waited in the clinic for a new diagnosis, having spent several months in Bolivar state and neighboring Guyana, some 600 kilometers from her Caracas home.
The clinic, though, is not immune to Venezuela's economic crisis and is struggling to treat patients.
This is a country that lacks 85 percent of the medicines it needs, according to the pharmaceuticals industry...
Malaria back with a vengeance in crisis-hit Venezuela
May 25, 2019
By ANDRE TOSTA
CARACAS - If it weren't for the Center for Malaria Studies in Caracas, Francelis Pacheco would have been unable to get treatment for a disease she has contracted around 20 times.
Pacheco, 25, sells clothes and cigars in the claustrophobic tunnels of gold mines in southern Venezuela's Bolivar state, where a type of malaria-carrying mosquito is particularly active.
"If it weren't for (treatment) here, honestly I don't know what I would have done," Pacheco told AFP as she waited in the clinic for a new diagnosis, having spent several months in Bolivar state and neighboring Guyana, some 600 kilometers from her Caracas home.
The clinic, though, is not immune to Venezuela's economic crisis and is struggling to treat patients.
This is a country that lacks 85 percent of the medicines it needs, according to the pharmaceuticals industry...