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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.
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A priest officiates at the funeral of Wendy Dulcey s baby son, Thiago, who died a month after being born in Caracas, Venezuela
Credit: Yadira Perez/AFP
Red roses and a burning candle frame the small white casket Wendy Dulcey is caressing at a hospital morgue in Caracas.
It contains the remains of her baby son who died on December 1, 39 days after he was born - a cruel fate befalling far too many in the crisis-hit South American country.