VENEZUELA. Caracas, 2019. A patient waits for doctor in a corridor of Central University hospital emergency service. This hospital survives out of medication and regular running water since a few years.

In November 2018, Human Rights Watch warned of Venezuela’s “devastating health crisis”, pointing to increasing rates of maternal and infant mortality and a spike in cases of measles, diphtheria, tuberculosis and malaria. Another recent report noted that 71% of emergency rooms could not provide regular services and 79% of hospitals lacked a reliable water supply. Only about 10 percent of hospitals have fully functioning emergency and operating rooms.