Caracas: Fifteen Venezuelans with advanced kidney disease have died after being unable to get dialysis during the country’s extended power outage, an NGO reported Saturday. In two days, there were 15 deaths for lack of dialysis,” said Francisco Valencia, director of Codevida health rights group.
The situation of people with kidney failure is very difficult, critical, we are talking about 95 per cent of dialysis units, which today likely hit 100 per cent, are paralyzed, due to the power outage,” Valencia added. He warned that there are more than 10,200 dialysis-dependent people nationwide who were at risk by the blackout. Venezuelans since Thursday afternoon have been in the grips of the worst blackout in the history of the oil-producing country.
President Nicolas Maduro government has charged that a US-led war on electric power supply was under way. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump’s national security advisor said Sunday that members of Venezuela’s military have been in conversation with National Assembly members about how they might move to support the opposition.
