VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-07-01
“We already had a health service with great deficiencies in terms of infrastructure, medical equipment and medicines,”
Eduardo Rivas · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-01
Rivas described pre-existing deficiencies in Venezuela's healthcare system worsened by the earthquakes.
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