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The combination of serious drug and food problems in Venezuela, as well as the spread of the disease on the country's borders, is a complex humanitarian emergency that requires a comprehensive response from the UN Secretary-General, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine. Public Health and Human Rights Watch said in a report.
Venezuelan authorities under the chairmanship of Nicolás Maduro have proved unable to end the crisis and have actually exacerbated it by their efforts to suppress information on the magnitude and urgency of the problems.
The 71-page report entitled "Humanitarian Emergency in Venezuela: The Need for a Large-Scale UN Response to Health and Food Crises",
documents the increase in the number of maternal and infant deaths; the
uncontrolled spread of vaccine preventable diseases such as measles and
diphtheria; and sharp increase in the transmission of infectious diseases
diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in Venezuela. Available data
shows high levels of food insecurity and child malnutrition, as well as
hospitalizations of malnourished children.
"Despite all their efforts, the Venezuelan authorities can not hide the
the reality on the ground, "said Shannon Doocy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, who conducted research at the Venezuelan border. "Venezuela
health system is in full collapse, which, combined with widespread food
shortage, stacks suffering on suffering and puts even more
Venezuelans in danger. We need UN leadership to help end this serious
crisis and save lives. "
At the end of March 2019, the International Federation of the Red Cross
announced that it is intensifying its operations in Venezuela to provide
helps about 650,000 people. A UN report leaked to the media around the
At the same time, it was estimated that the population in need of support was 7
million.
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, should lead efforts to
overall plan of humanitarian response to the internal situation and
outside the country, the groups said. Specifically, Guterres should:
- Formally declare that Venezuela is facing a complex
humanitarian emergency, a term of UN art, which would unlock the
mobilization of sufficient resources to meet the urgent needs of the
Venezuelan people; - Charge the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, who is also head of the UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to deal with
The Venezuelan crisis is a top priority requiring large-scale mobilization
relief and humanitarian resources; and - Request the Venezuelan authorities to grant UN staff full access to
official data on disease, epidemiology, food security and nutrition
they can respond to independent and comprehensive humanitarian needs
badessment of the scale of the crisis at the national level.
Experts from Human Rights Watch and the Center for
Humanitarian Health and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health interviewed more than
150 people for the report. They included health professionals,
Venezuelans seeking medical care or food recently
arrived in Colombia and Brazil, representatives of international organizations and
non-governmental humanitarian organizations, United Nations officials and Brazilian organizations.
and representatives of the Colombian government. The researchers also badyzed data on
the situation in Venezuela from official sources, hospitals,
international and national organizations and non-governmental organizations
organizations. It was a research project of one year.
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