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Maternity ward death traps, with dead children piled on top of each other and blood-soaked corridors, are the new norm in Nicolas Maduro s socialist Venezuela.
Seven years of back-to-back recession and the highest inflation in the world has destroyed the country s healthcare system, with a critical shortage of doctors and nursing personnel, surgical equipment and medicine.
Wendy Dulcey, whose baby son Thiago died in December a month after he was born, recounted how she saw a partly-open fridge filled with the corpses of dead children at the hospital in Caracas.
The 39-year-old public official fell ill and was admitted to the University Hospital in the capital for an emergency C-section at only seven months.