Venezuela's shortages: babies in cartons at the maternity ward

Photos showing newborns placed in cardboard packaging boxes lined up next to each other in a maternity ward have been circulating for two days on social media au Venezuela. A new testimony of the serious economic crisis that is hitting the country.

No incubator or visible medical equipment: these images of babies who do not seem to be able to benefit from the basic treatment of a newborn were shared on Twitter on Tuesday by lawyer Manuel Ferreira, an activist of the Table de l ' Democratic Union, an anti-Chavist political coalition. He claims that they were sent to him by a member of the maternity staff of the Las Garzas Hospital, on the outskirts of Barcelona, ​​in the state of Anzoategui.